Ukraine war briefing: Russian forces occupying Ukraine use torture as 'policy', says UN expert

Russian armed forces and associated groups systematically use torture in occupied areas of Ukraine, pointing to a "deliberate policy", a United Nations expert said. Alice Jill Edwards said on Friday she had drawn that conclusion after a visit to Ukraine in September. Edwards, the UN special rapporteur on torture, said Ukrainian prosecutors had told her there were about 103,000 open cases related to war crimes and crimes against humanity, of which 90% were registered as torture cases. Two people were killed and 26 injured in a Russian missile attack on the northern Ukrainian city of Sumy, the regional administration said…