The United States wrote to the United Nations that it has credible information that Russia has compiled lists of Ukrainians “to be killed or sent to camps” after the country’s occupation. The leaked letter to the UN is in the hands of the American newspaper The Washington Post.
In the letter, the US claims that after invading Ukraine, Russia has plans to include torture, kidnappings and “widespread human suffering” targeting “opponents of the Russian actions”.
The letter does not explain on which sources the US is basing these suspicions.
Bathsheba Crocker, the American ambassador to the UN and other international organizations in the Swiss city of Geneva, writes in the letter that the Russian army’s actions after the invasion of Ukraine will mainly focus on the dissidents from Russia living in exile in that country and Belarus, to journalists and anti-corruption activists and to “vulnerable populations such as religious and ethnic minorities and LGBTQI+ persons”.
In the letter, sent Sunday evening to the UN’s human rights office, the OHCHR in Switzerland, Crocker writes: “We have credible information showing that the Russian military is preparing lists of Ukrainians to be killed or sent to camps. after a military occupation.”
The US administration is also said to have information that, in the event of an invasion, Russia will then take tough measures to quell any peaceful protest and resistance of the civilian population in Ukraine.