The UN Human Rights Council will hold a special session on Ukraine this week after Kyiv called for a review of the situation in the country amid the war unleashed by Russia, a spokesman for the organization Rolando Gomez,
KYIV. UkraineGate , 10 , May , 2022 | Ukraine News .
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“The meeting, which is expected to take place on Thursday, may include a resolution instructing the newly formed commission to investigate the war to submit a detailed report to the council later this year,” the newspaper said.
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This came after Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva, Yevhenia Filipenko, wrote a letter calling for consideration of “recent reports of war crimes and large-scale violations in Bucha… and reports of mass casualties in Mariupol.”
The United Kingdom, the United States and Germany were among the 55 countries that signed the document.
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On March 30, Federico Villegas, chairman of the UN Human Rights Council, announced the establishment of a commission to investigate war crimes committed during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Source: Ukrgate
