Ukraine’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Andrii Melnyk, considers it a historic event that Secretary-General António Guterres has added the Russian army to the “list of shame”—a list of armed forces that systematically commit crimes of sexual violence. — Ukrinform.

A UN report accuses Israeli forces of abuse of Palestinian detainees and Russian forces of sexual violence in Ukraine. Both deny the allegations.

The United Nations has for the first time added Russia and Israel to its annual blacklist of parties responsible for conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV).