GENEVA ¨C Russia has committed a crime against humanity in forcing people to flee Ukrainian-held territory through continual drone attacks targeting civilians, a United Nations-backed investigation said Monday.
The U.N.¡¯s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine also determined that Russia had committed war crimes in deporting and transferring civilians from occupied areas of Ukraine¡¯s Zaporizhzhia region.
¡°Russian authorities have systematically coordinated actions to drive out Ukrainian civilians from their place of residence by drone attacks, as well as deportations and transfers,¡± the probe said.
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