Experts tell House panel Russia is committing war crimes

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WASHINGTON, March 16 (UPI) -- Minutes after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made an emotional appeal for help to the U.S. Congress, showing a graphic video of obliterated buildings and dead civilians, members of a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee heard from experts who said the civilian casualties in Russia's invasion constitute war crimes.

Experts at Wednesday's hearing presented lawmakers with videos they say demonstrate human rights abuses, arguing that Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian Federation are responsible for hundreds of acts of war crimes that include targeting maternity and children's hospitals and residential buildings, and the indiscriminate use of cluster bombs and other inhumane munitions on civilians.

"We must understand these things in concrete terms," said Rep. Bill Keating, D-Mass., chairman of the Subcommittee on Europe, Energy, the Environment and Cyber. "These people in these places are real husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, sisters and brothers being ripped from life early by a marauding army and leader."

In the nearly three weeks since Russia launched an unprovoked, full-scale invasion of Ukraine, 726 civilians have been killed and more than 1,100 have been injured, according to the United Nations' Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights.

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