A United Nations investigation into human rights violations in Ukraine since Russia’s invasion warned on Monday that some rhetoric transmitted by Russian media may quantity to incitement to genocide.

Speaking earlier than the UN Human Rights Council, the top of the investigation workforce, Erik Mose, voiced concern “about allegations of genocide in Ukraine”.

“For instance, some of the rhetoric transmitted in Russian state and other media may constitute incitement to genocide,” he mentioned, including that the workforce was “continuing its investigations on such issues”.

The Norwegian choose heads a three-person Commission of Inquiry (COI), which was created by the council to analyze violations dedicated since Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbour in February final yr.

In its first full report in March, the workforce decided that Russian authorities had dedicated “a wide range of war crimes”.

Mose mentioned on the time that the fee was conscious of accusations of genocide, together with the pressured switch of Ukrainian kids to areas beneath Russian management, and vowed to analyze.

In his replace on the scenario on Monday, he mentioned the fee had “continued to investigate individual situations of alleged transfers of unaccompanied minors by Russian authorities to the Russian Federation”.

“It regrets that there is a lack of clarity and transparency on the full extent, circumstances, and categories of children transferred,” he mentioned.

“The commission is of the view that insufficient knowledge about the precise number and circumstances of children transferred may hamper an expeditious return process.”

The March report had additionally decided that Moscow was behind an unlimited array of different battle crimes, together with widespread assaults on civilians and infrastructure, killings, torture and rape and different sexual violence.

Mose mentioned on Monday that the fee, which had travelled greater than 10 instances to Ukraine, was now “undertaking a more in-depth investigation” that “may also clarify whether torture and attacks on energy infrastructure amount to crimes against humanity”.

Among different issues, he mentioned the workforce was investigating the reason for the disastrous destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam in Russian-held territory on June 6.

The fee had additionally “collected further evidence indicating that the use of torture by Russian armed forces in areas under their control has been widespread and systematic”, he mentioned.

The torture was primarily happening in numerous detention centres managed by Russian authorities, he mentioned, including that in some instances it was “inflicted with such brutality that it caused the death of the victim”.

And within the Kherson area, the fee had discovered that “Russian soldiers raped and committed sexual violence against women of ages ranging from 19 to 83 years”.

Such acts had been typically accompanied by “threats or commission of other violations”, Mose mentioned, including that “frequently, family members were kept in an adjacent room, thereby forced to hear the violations taking place”.

“The commission reiterates its deep concern at the scale and gravity of violations and corresponding crimes that have been committed in Ukraine by Russian armed forces,” he instructed the council, emphasising “the need for accountability”.

The workforce, he mentioned, additionally recalled the necessity for the Ukrainian authorities “to expeditiously and thoroughly investigate the few cases of violations by its own forces”.

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