Russian attacks on civilians in Ukraine were today officially declared war crimes in a devastating international report ordered by 45 countries.
Vladimir Putin's forces' attack that killed 300 people sheltering in the Mariupol Theatre was “most likely… an egregious violation” of humanitarian law and “those who ordered or executed it committed a war crime”, the report said.
It also dismissed Russia 's claims that its attack on a maternity hospital in Mariupol last month was “fake news”, saying the attack “must have been deliberate”.
