Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Amnesty International, which is also funded by György Soros, of supporting terrorism after the NGO's latest report found that the Ukrainian army had committed human rights violations by placing weapons in civilian facilities, writes Ripost following the Politico article.
The Amnesty report in question was published on Thursday morning and shows 22 cases of Ukrainian armed forces launching strikes from schools and 5 examples of hospitals being used as weapons depots. According to the NGO, the Ukrainian soldiers deliberately did not evacuate civilians before taking possession of these non-military facilities , thus effectively using them as "human shields".
We have documented that Ukrainian forces regularly endanger civilians and violate the laws of war when they operate in populated areas, said Agnes Callamard , Secretary General of Amnesty, who also added that the Ukrainian army is not exempt from international humanitarian law just because it was attacked. them.
The Ukrainian government reacted to the report, which stirred up a lot of dust, with sharp criticism almost immediately. Zelensky stated in his video message that "Amnesty tries to relativize a terrorist state and shifts the responsibility from the aggressor to the victim." After that, the head of state of Ukraine stated three times in a row that his country is a "victim", and then added: "anyone who doubts this is an accomplice of Russia - a terrorist country - in fact, he himself is a terrorist and a participant in the murders".
Dmitriy Kuleba also took a dig at Amnesty, saying that the NGO "creates a false reality" in which everyone is "guilty of something" . According to the ministry head, this is an inherently wrong approach, and the organization should "focus exclusively on Russian crimes."
Ukrainian presidential adviser Mihajlo Podoljak also criticized the report, accusing Moscow of trying to "discredit the Ukrainian armed forces in the eyes of Western societies" . In a tweet, he added: "Shame on Amnesty for participating in this disinformation and propaganda campaign .
Source: Ripost
(Cover image: MTI/EPA/Ukraine Presidential Press Office)
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