Watch reports evidence of atrocities in Bucha

Russian forces committed multiple apparent war crimes while occupying the Ukrainian town of Bucha in March, the NewYork-based Human Rights Watch said in a report released yesterday. The report adds to a growing body of evidence documenting alleged atrocities by Russian troops in Ukraine. The rights group’s researchers spent six days interviewing residents in Bucha, a suburb of the capital, Kyiv, earlier this month. They found evidence of summary executions, torture and enforced disappearances by Russian forces, ‘‘all of which would constitute war crimes and potential crimes against humanity,’’ the group said. The Geneva Conventions governing the laws of war forbid indiscriminate killings, enforced disappearances and torture, as well as the humiliating or inhumane treatment of prisoners of war.