Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last night accused Amnesty Internacional of justifying Russia’s attacks after the NGO published a report that the Kiev army used combat tactics that endangered the lives of civilians. Referring to a Russian attack in the city of Toretsk in the last few hours that left eight people dead, Zelenskyy assured in his daily message to the Ukrainian people that he hadn’t had such “clear and timely” reports from some international organizations about “crimes committed by Russian terrorists”.
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“Compared to the Toretsk attack and thousands of other crimes committed by Russian terrorists, we don’t see such clear and timely reports. We saw a completely different report from Amnesty, which unfortunately tries to exonerate Russia and put responsibility on the aggressor. the victim,” he said.
Stressing that there is no condition under which a Russian attack on Ukraine can be justified, the president said that “you cannot tolerate it” for an organization to enter into a relationship by equating the victim with the attacker. They were destroyed or damaged nearly 200 religious buildings. Almost 900 medical facilities. Over 2,200 schools. The Russian army didn’t even stop at the memorials to the victims of the Holocaust, and there are no reports about it, without reason. It’s immoral”.
Zelenskyy said that “those who condone Russian responsibility and artificially create an information environment in which terrorist attacks are justified” do not realize that they are helping Moscow. “And if those are relationships that manipulate reality, then they share responsibility for people’s deaths,” he added. Amnesty International said yesterday that Ukrainian troops are using combat tactics that endanger civilian lives and violate international humanitarian law, often operating in residential areas, including hospitals and schools.
Amnesty Secretary-General Agnès Callamard warned Kyiv that “the defense position does not absolve the Ukrainian army from respecting international humanitarian law”. According to Amnesty, “there is evidence that the Ukrainian army launched attacks from populated areas and settled in 19 villages and towns”. Callamard himself then accused “social network trolls” of “attacking the Amesty International investigation.” This is called war propaganda, misinformation and bad information.