India, Oct. 28 -- Drones operated by Russian forces have repeatedly attacked Ukrainian civilians, causing deaths, injuries and large-scale destruction, independent UN human rights investigators said on Monday.

The Russian military's actions amount to two crimes against humanity, the Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine's report states - firstly of "murder and of forcible transfer of population" and secondly, "deportations and transfers of civilians" from areas occupied by Russian forces, some of whom were tortured.

The attacks - which have struck a wide range of civilian targets in an area spanning over 300 kilometres along the right bank of the Dnipro River, across Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, and Mykolaiv oblasts - are systematically coordina...