Russia plans to target dissidents in Ukraine to be killed or sent to camps, U.S. says.
Those at risk for human rights abuses after an invasion would most likely include political activists, "religious and ethnic minorities and LGBTQI+ persons."
The U.S. has warned the United Nations that it believes Russia has plans to kill large numbers of critics, dissidents and"vulnerable populations" in Ukraine or send them to camps after anAmbassador Bathsheba Nell Crocker, the U.S. representative to the Office of the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva, recently made the assertions in a letter to the U.N.
The document warns of large-scale"human rights violations and abuses" and says protesters would also be met with unjust force.
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