UN chief warns of ‘massive’ rights violations in Ukraine

UN chief Antonio Guterres with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office/PA)

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has triggered “the most massive violations of human rights” in the world today, the head of the United Nations has said as the war pushed into its second year with no end in sight.

The Russian invasion “has unleashed widespread death, destruction and displacement”, UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres said in a speech to the UN-backed Human Rights Council in Geneva.