The United Nations Committee recognized for the first time the Russian energy attacks as crimes against humanity and the Independent International Commission of Inquiry of Ukraine for the first time declared the systematic Russian attacks on the Ukrainian energy infrastructure as war crimes and crimes against humanity. The corresponding conclusions were presented during the official presentation of the commission's annual report at the UN headquarters in New York. This was reported by "Glabcom" in reference to the permanent representative of Ukraine to the United Nations Andriy Melnyk.