GENEVA – More than 6,000 people have been killed since violence erupted in Ukraine last April, the UN rights chief said Monday, decrying a “merciless devastation of civilian lives and infrastructure.” “More than 6,000 lives have now been lost in less than a year due to the fighting in eastern Ukraine,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said in a statement.Launching his office’s ninth report on the situation in violence-wracked Ukraine, Zeid called on all sides to respect a fragile Minsk peace deal, and “halt the indiscriminate shelling and other hostilities that have created a dreadful …read more
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