UN warns on Ukraine human rights

The UN has warned of an "alarming deterioration" in human rights in eastern Ukraine, where separatists are fighting security forces. It also found "serious problems" of harassment and persecution of ethnic Tatars in Crimea, the mainly ethnic Russian region Moscow annexed in March. The conclusions are contained in the UN's monthly report on the crisis. Deadly violence between separatists and pro-Ukrainian forces has left dozens dead in the east and south this month. "Those with influence on the armed groups responsible for much of the violence in eastern Ukraine [must] do their utmost to rein in these men who seem bent on tearing the country apart," UN human rights chief Navi Pillay said in Geneva, as the 37-page monitoring report was released, according to BBC.