Russia has detained hundreds of civilians since Ukraine war began: UN

FILE PHOTO: The United Nations headquarters building is pictured with a UN logo in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., March 1, 2022. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File Photo

GENEVA (Reuters) -A United Nations monitoring mission in Ukraine said on Tuesday that Russia has detained more than 800 civilians since the conflict began in February of last year, and has executed 77 of them.

The 36-page report based on 70 visits to detention centres and more than 1,000 interviews showed that Ukraine had also violated international law by arbitrarily detaining civilians but on a considerably smaller scale.