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The group Human Rights Watch published an account of Russia’s “apparent war crimes” in Ukraine, detailing murder and rape offenses, among others. 

The report describes two summary executions and a case of “repeated rape.” It documents a Russian soldier’s threat to execute a man and his son until a second soldier intervened. It also describes Russian soldiers throwing smoke grenades into a basement where a woman and child were hiding, then shooting them both as they fled. The report said these events all took place between Feb. 27 and March 14.