Russian war crimes in Ukraine ‘could implicate Putin’s top officials’

Reports have been emerging from recently-liberated areas in Ukraine of Russian soldiers using torture rooms against civilians (Picture: Getty)Russians have murdered, tortured and kidnapped Ukrainians in a systematic pattern that could implicate Vladimir Putin’s top officials in war crimes, a US official has warned.US ambassador-at-large for Global Criminal Justice Beth Van Schaack stressed it is ‘very hard to imagine’ how such crimes could be committed without re