By Ine Back Iversen | ineukraine.com

For almost four full years, Ukrainians have begged the world to listen — to see the truth, to act.

Now, the United Nations has once again confirmed what Ukraine has been saying from the start:

Russia is committing crimes against humanity.

The newly released report by the UN Human Rights Council’s Independent Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine outlines what can only be described as a systematic campaign of terror — one designed to murder, torture, and erase Ukrainian civilians from russian temporarily occupied territories.

These aren’t “isolated incidents.”

They are deliberate, state-orchestrated crimes.

Crimes Against Humanity — Confirmed

The Commission’s findings specifically point out two core categories of crimes against humanity committed by Russia in Ukraine:

1️⃣ Murder and forcible transfer of population

2️⃣ Deportation and torture of civilians

Investigators describe a coordinated and targeted campaign stretching over 300 kilometers along the Dnipro River — across Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, and Mykolaiv oblasts.

Entire regions have been deliberately attacked in an attempt to break civilian resistance and erase Ukrainian life from occupied land.

Weaponizing Terror Against Civilians

Russian forces continue to bombard private homes and residential blocks, hospitals, energy infrastructure, and humanitarian centers — intentionally targeting civilians, journalists, and first responders.

Ambulances, firefighters, and rescue teams — people afforded special protection under international law — have been deliberately struck, often multiple times, to terrorize the population into submission.

“We are hit every day, drones fly at any time – morning, evening, day or night, constantly,” one Ukrainian man told investigators.

This is not “incidents of war.”

It’s the weaponization of fear — a psychological and physical campaign aimed at destroying not only people’s lives, but their will to exist.

Deportations, Torture, and Erasure of Identity

The report also confirms mass deportations and forced transfers of civilians — some sent to Ukrainian-controlled areas, others deported into Russia or occupied Georgia.

Most of those taken have been illegally detained, tortured, robbed of their documents and belongings, and stripped of their identity.

This is not just ethnic cleansing — it’s the systematic erasure of Ukrainian identity.

A slow, deliberate genocide disguised as “liberation.”

Evidence That Can No Longer Be Denied

The report’s conclusions are based on a vast body of verified evidence:

🔺 Over 500 videos of confirmed crimes

🔺 226 witness testimonies from survivors

🔺 247 geolocated crime scenes across Ukraine

And yet, Russia continues to sit on the UN Security Council — with veto power.

The same institution meant to uphold international peace still gives a war criminal state the right to block its own punishment.

Accountability Blocked — Justice Delayed

The report also points out another side of Russias wickedness, specifically their way of “false flag”- tactics, propaganda and blueprint gaslighting.

Meaning even when Russia publish footage, and brag about the war crimes they are committing, they at the same time, claim “Ukraine is committing those crimes.”

Unsurprisingly, Russia has refuse to cooperate with investigators, and keep denying any official, international or independent organization or any entity for that matter, access to the territory under russia occupation and keeps ignoring official requests for information.

russia holds the territories they illegally occupy like hostages and continue on with their war crimes against the civilians in Ukraine.

Look at the war crimes they commit and openly post, now imagine the crimes they commit in the areas where they close off from the world and let no one else in.

That alone speaks volumes. We all know Russias claims is nothing but propaganda and lies, and that the only thing that will be found in the areas russians occupy, is mountains of evidence proving the extent of the many russian war crimes in Ukraine.

Silence Is Compliance

Ukrainians have documented and shared the atrocities and evidence of Russias war crimes in Ukraine since the invasion in 2014 when russia illegally annexed Crimea and Luhansk.

And now, after russias full scale invasion of Ukraine, russia isn’t even hiding it.

They rather rely on puppets echoing their false narratives and excuses, their ability to persuade the masses.

The international community, and especially those whose job it is to hold evil accountable, have to take some accountability here!

Because it’s not about what we’ve done, but about what we have not done, that has paved the way for Russias ability to continue and commit these crimes against humanity:

• By the lack of response to the russian aggression and their decades of imperialism,

• By choosing the path of handshakes, contracts and depends of what they sell, and ignore what that money is spent on.

• By watching them commit the most horrific war crimes against another nation, without immediate actions that would make such acts impossible.

• By giving into the illusions of power poised by rusaian parrots.

• By giving into ignorance and feeling of being overwhelmed rather than facing reality.

• By giving Russia time, and warnings rather than punishment.

• By creating a false sense of distance, claiming this is “not our war”, when in fact, this is a war against humanity itself, waged by the russian terrorist state, an imperialistic aggressor with a superiority complex and a long history of violence and oppression of other nations.

All this makes us complicit in these crimes that russia is committing, because by not responding and punishing such evil, we allow it to grow.

Which is exactly what russia continues to do.

Years Of documented Crimes — Still Waiting for Action

The footage, testimonies, and satellite images of Russias war crimes have been available to every international body and government.

And yet, it took nearly four years of Russias full scale invasion of Ukraine, for the UN to officially label these acts as what they are:

Crimes against humanity!

Years of evidence. Thousands of lives lost. Millions of lives uprooted, displaced & wounded forever.

And still — justice has yet to prevail.

War crimes go unpunished, and the criminals continue their mission of genocide without facing consequences from the world that all vouched for this to never happened again.

The Moral Test of Our Time

How many reports does it take before “Never Again” actually mean never again?

How long until the perpetrators of these crimes face real punishment?

How long until international law proves that the Geneva Conventions are more than just words on paper?

Ukraine’s suffering has become the world’s moral test.

This is the moment in history that will define humanity for generations to come.

And every day of silence is a day the global order fails it.

If the Geneva Conventions cannot protect Ukraine, then what do they protect at all?