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Mission Report on Human Rights Abuses and International Humanitarian Law
Violations in Russia’s War Against Ukraine
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OSCE RELEASES THE SECOND EXPERT MISSION REPORT ON HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES AND
INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW VIOLATIONS IN RUSSIA’S WAR AGAINST UKRAINE

Press Statement

Ned Price, Department Spokesperson

July 14, 2022

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With Ukraine’s assent, the United States and 44 other countries invoked the OSCE
Moscow Mechanism for a second time on June 2, establishing an expert mission to
examine the further human rights abuses and humanitarian impacts of Russia’s war
of aggression in Ukraine. In the report released at today’s OSCE Permanent
Council meeting, the mission of experts found “clear patterns of serious
violations of international humanitarian law attributable mostly to Russian
armed forces.” This is consistent with the findings in the first report,
released April 13.

The current report, like its predecessor, also documents evidence of direct
targeting of civilians, attacks on medical facilities, rape, torture,
executions, looting, and forced transfer of civilians to Russia-controlled parts
of Ukraine and forced deportations to Russia itself. It further identifies two
new “alarming phenomena,” namely the “establishment and use of so-called
filtration centers” and the “tendency of the Russian Federation to bypass its
international obligations by handing detained people over” to its proxies in
eastern Ukraine to let them “engage in problematic practices, including the
imposition of the death penalty.”

Taken together, the two reports comprise the most comprehensive accounting of
evidence to-date of Russia’s human rights abuses, international humanitarian law
violations, including potential war crimes, and other atrocities since President
Putin launched his full-scale war against Ukraine on February 24. The United
States and our partners will seek to hold accountable those responsible for all
human rights abuses and violations of international humanitarian law, including
war crimes, they commit in Ukraine.

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