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Top European Rights Court Finds Russia Committed Abuses In Ukraine

The Council of Europe, which includes the European Court of Human Rights, excluded Russia following its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 (Credit: AFP)

A top European court on Wednesday ruled Russia committed a string of human rights violations in backing anti-Kyiv separatists in eastern Ukraine from 2014, in the downing of the MH17 flight that year and in invading Ukraine in 2022.

The European Court of Human Rights, part of the Council of Europe rights body, is tasked with implementing the European human rights convention in signatory countries.

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