Local residents stand next to a building heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the town of Chuhuiv, Kharkiv region, Ukraine February 15, 2024. REUTERS/Vladyslav Musiienko/File Photo
KYIV (Reuters) - Russia is illegally consolidating its control over occupied Ukrainian territory by creating a "climate of fear" with practices such as arbitrary detention, killings and torture, the head of a U.N. reporting mission in Ukraine told Reuters.
Speaking before the release of a comprehensive UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) report on the territories Russia occupied in its full-scale invasion since 2022, the mission's head, Danielle Bell, said Russia's breaches of rights there were used to terrify local residents into co-operating.
