A 14-year-old boy killed in a summary execution.

Girls as young as 4 years old and women up to 82 years old victims of sexual violence.

A priest brutally beaten, then stripped naked and forced to parade naked through the streets of his village for an hour.

These are the nightmarish discoveries of a new Report supported by the UN released Thursday, revealing that Russia committed war crimes and possibly crimes against humanity during its war. invasion of Ukraine for a year.

The three international experts appointed as investigators to the Human Rights Council’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine have concluded that Russia is guilty of serious violations of international humanitarian and human rights law.

These included indiscriminate bombing of areas with civilian populations and targeted attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure, as well as torture, illegal detention, summary executions and rape.

“The Commission is concerned about the number, geographic distribution and severity of human rights violations and corresponding international crimes that it documented during its mandate,” the investigators wrote in their report. “These have affected men, women, boys and girls from all backgrounds and of all ages. »

The report will likely have little practical effect on Russia, but it will increase pressure for the country to be held accountable. by the International Criminal Court.

At the very least, the report also constitutes a historical account of abuses committed by Russia, which did not cooperate with the investigation.

As a man whose father was executed by Russian soldiers in a village in the Kharkiv region told investigators: “They punished innocent people; now those who are guilty, if they are still alive, must be punished to the fullest extent.”