Russia has killed an average of six civilians a day in Ukraine over the past six months, according to a report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights presented in Kyiv on Wednesday, according to which 10,000 civilians have been killed since the beginning. of a large-scale Russian offensive in Ukraine in February 2022, EFE and Agepres report.

“More than 20 months after the start of the Russian invasion, Ukrainian civilians continue to pay a terrible price, with nearly 10,000 dead and tens of thousands injured,” the report says. “For the past six months, the war has caused an average of six civilian casualties per day,” the document says.

The report documented “persistent rocket attacks on residential areas and critical infrastructure,” as well as Russian bombing of the grain industry and agricultural infrastructure, which “continues to sow fear and destruction” across Ukraine.

Among the consequences of the war for the population, the UN investigation emphasizes the economic consequences of the Russian invasion for millions of people.

Widespread torture by beatings, electric shocks, mock executions, sexual violence and other forms of ill-treatment of Ukrainian prisoners of war and civilians by Russian forces in the occupied territories is another systematic and documented violation of human rights.

Ukrainians in the occupied territories are forced to accept Russian citizenship

The document also points to the blackmailing of Ukrainian citizens in the occupied territories in order to accept Russian citizenship, without which they are often denied access to basic services.

Ukrainian men in these territories also face the threat of being sent to the front to fight on the side of Russia against their country’s armed forces.

Another violation condemned in the report concerns the forced transfer of Ukrainian children and minors, who in many cases were under the care of the Ukrainian state and who suffer from mental and intellectual disabilities, from one occupied zone to another or to the territory of the Russian Federation. Federation.

Several people claim they were coerced into admitting they collaborated with the Russians

As for the Ukrainian side, this report expresses concern about almost 8,000 criminal prosecutions of alleged collaborators by July of this year.

According to the given data, the Ukrainian judiciary issued guilty verdicts in “almost all” of the cases under consideration.

People who cooperated with the Russian authorities in the territories occupied by Russia and later liberated by Ukraine, who agreed to work with the occupiers in various responsible positions, often become accused.

Many of these people told UN investigators that they did so under threat.

The report also criticizes the “severity” with which non-violent crimes, such as justifying the Russian intrusion into social media, are prosecuted and sometimes convicted, and calls for greater clarity in the law to avoid arbitrary decisions in this regard.

Earlier, the Ukrainian mass media reported cases of pensioners being sentenced to life imprisonment for liking such Russian content on the Odnoklassniki social network, which was seen as “glorification of the Russian invasion of Ukraine”, the Ukrainian service of the BBC reported on September 29.