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UN called on 'all parties' to avoid torture after Russian soldiers appear to cut off body parts of Ukrainian POW.

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In an official statement, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission said it was "appalled by the latest videos, apparently showing the beating, castration, and shooting of a captured soldier from the Ukrainian Armed Forces by a man, who appears to be a member of the Russian forces." Monitoring Mission added that "if confirmed, these actions would constitute war crimes."

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Washington and Kyiv will invest $75 million each to kickstart the Ukraine reconstruction investment fund that gives the U.S. special access to mineral sites and other projects in Ukraine, the Economy Minister Oleksii Sobolev told journalists on Sept. 17.

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