Ukraine: Investigators find Russia committed war crimes by targeting civilians

Top human rights experts investigating Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine said on Monday that the Russian authorities had committed war crimes and crimes against humanity by attacking civilians and vital energy infrastructure, among other violations of international law.In its latest report, the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, noted that attacks on power plants have intensified “once again” across Ukraine, where temperatures plunged to -21°C last winter.“The scariest thing was to fall asleep and not to wake up; it was like torture to be scared of dying from cold,” said one 53-year-old man cited in the report, which reiterated the war’s serious negative impact on older people, too. “I lay cold and hungry, without medicine, without anything,” said a 74-year-old woman from Kyiv, who like many senior citizens is unable to use stairs and too afraid to use lifts, making it impossible to reach a safe place during air raid alerts.Cold and isolated“This means that they must remain in unheated dwellings without electricity or water, with no access to life support devices or essential services,” the report’s authors insisted.Russian commanders ordering the att...