Earlier this week, we released a report documenting several cases of Russian military forces committing laws-of-war violations against civilians in occupied areas of the Chernihiv, Kharkiv, and Kyiv regions of Ukraine. These include a case of repeated rape; two cases of summary execution, one of six men, the other of one man; and other cases of unlawful violence and threats against civilians between February 27 and March 14, 2022. The cases we documented amount to unspeakable, deliberate cruelty and violence against Ukrainian civilians and those who carried out the abuses are responsible for war crimes. On March 4, Russian forces in Bucha rounded up five men and summarily executed one of them. A witness told Human Rights Watch that soldiers forced the five men to kneel on the side of the road, pulled their T-shirts over their heads, and shot one of the men in the back of the head. This report features first-hand, eyewitness accounts from areas around Ukraine detailing the gravity of abuses by Russian forces and why they should be investigated as war crimes. | 
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