The Russian invasion of Ukraine will lead to additional hardships in Syria, a UN official has warned on Friday. Paulo Pinheiro, who chairs an independent international Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, warned of the impact of the war in Ukraine on Syrians while presenting his commission’s report to the 49th session of the UN Human Rights Council, which is convening in Geneva until April 1st. “Syrians will be confronting additional hardship as a result of the Ukraine crisis. Inflation is already skyrocketing,” Pinheiro told the Human Rights Council. “The government has begun ra…