The USA confirms an inhumanity actions such as murder, torture, rape, and deportation, by the Russian army during their invasion of Ukraine...

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Edited by | Tony wild
politics section CJ journalist
Feb. 18 -2023 USA

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    In her speech at the annual Munich Security Conference on Saturday, Vice President KAMALA HARRIS said that the world has witnessed Russian forces engaged in “horrendous atrocities and war crimes.”

Harris added that the Russian soldiers have conducted a widespread attack against Ukrainian civilians, which has included “gruesome acts” of murder, torture, rape, and deportation

The United States has formally determined that Russia has committed crimes against humanity, and I say to all those who have perpetrated these crimes, and to their superiors, who are complicit in these crimes, you will be held to account,” Harris said.

The United Nations defines a crime against humanity as one or more of several acts that are part of a widespread or systematic attack on a civilian population with prior knowledge of the attack. The acts include murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, imprisonment, torture, rape and other forms of sexual violence, enforced disappearance, and apartheid.

Atrocities committed by Russian soldiers have been documented since the start of the war nearly a year ago, with accounts of their actions coming shortly after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said last March, about one month into the war, that the U.S. had formally determined Russia was committing war crimes in Ukraine.

Harris said Russian officials have forcibly deported hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians, including children, from captured territory to Russia and separated children from their families. She said execution-style killings, beatings, and electrocutions have also been observed.

She noted examples: a pregnant woman who was killed after a Russian strike hit a maternity hospital where she was staying, civilians being “shot in cold blood” in the city of Bucha, and a 4-year-old girl being sexually assaulted by a Russian soldier.

Kamala Devi Harris is an American politician and attorney who is the 49th and current vice president of the United States. She is the first female vice president and the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history, as well as the first African American and first Asian American vice president.