In a report, the NGO accused the Ukrainian army of establishing military bases in schools and hospitals and launching attacks from populated areas.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Thursday evening August 4 Amnesty International of “attempt to grant amnesty to the terrorist statefrom Russia, after the NGO accused kyiv of endangering civilians in the context of the war with Moscow. Amnesty International”shifts responsibility from the aggressor to the victim“, he added. Earlier in the day, the head of Ukrainian diplomacy, Dmytro Kouleba, said to himself “unworthy“by the charges”unjust” long.
In a report released Thursday After a four-month investigation, the NGO accused the Ukrainian military of establishing military bases in schools and hospitals and launching attacks from populated areas, a tactic it said violated international humanitarian law. “When the Ukrainian army moved into civilian structures in residential areas, it neither asked civilians to evacuate surrounding buildings nor helped civilians to evacuate them, thus failing to take all precautions possible to protect the civilian population“, is it notably written in the report. Testimonials from residents accompany this file, such as that of Mykola, who lives in the Donbass, and explains: “I don’t understand why our army shoots from the cities and not from the countryside. »
“false reality»
“The aggression against our state is unjustified, invasive and terrorist. If someone writes a report in which the victim and the aggressor are in some way put on an equal footing, if certain data on the victim is analyzed and the actions of the aggressor are ignored, that does not can be toleratedadded Volodymyr Zelensky in his daily video statement.
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Dmytro Kouleba for his part accused Amnesty International of “create a false balance between oppressor and victim, between the country that destroys hundreds and thousands of civilians, cities, territories and the country that desperately defends itself“.
“Stop creating this false reality, where everyone is a little guilty of something and start systematically reporting the truth about what Russia really stands for today“, he added. Amnesty International, however, in its report, insisted that Ukraine’s tactics do notin no way justify the indiscriminate Russian attackswhich hit the civilian population.