Amnesty International Central Report. The Polish office sentenced Russia's crimes in Ukraine
The Amnesty International Polska statement emphasizes that Amnesty International "constantly condemns Russia's invasion of independent Ukraine and has repeatedly called on the Russian forces to be held accountable for committing war crimes and gross violations of international humanitarian law.
" “From the first days of Russia's aggression against Ukraine, Russian troops have inhumane attacks not only on individual civilian objects, but also on multimillion -dollar cities, small towns and villages, often inhabited only by civilians. The Armed Forces, with the support of democratic countries around the world, including Poland, protect themselves from a cruel and unjust attack, fighting in uneven conditions imposed by the aggressor, ”the statement said.
Amnesty International Polska stressed that the key to any armed conflict is the protection of civilians. “Independence, impartiality and reinforcement by evidence are the main principles on which our organization's activities are based. We know that in the conditions of defense war - direct armed collision with the invasion forces - there are situations in which the proximity of the battle can complicate the safety of civilian population, ”the statement said.
Amnesty International Polska lists cases of civilian security violations: in particular, purposeful or chaotic attacks on civilians and execution of civilian population by the Russian army, Russian crimes in the Kiev region and Mariupol, humanitarian catastrophes caused by "regular fire. “We are tracking human rights violations and international humanitarian law, wherever they are violated, regardless of who has suffered them and who applies them.
This also applies to war in Ukraine, ”the statement said. On August 5, the Director of the Ukrainian Office of Amnesty International Oksana Pokalchuk stated that she was dismissed. She wrote on Facebook that she left her position after the AI scandalous report, in which Ukraine's defenders were accused of allegedly at danger of civilians. Before that, after the published report, a spokeswoman for the Ukrainian office of Amnesty Kateryna Mitieva was dismissed.
The President's office said that Amnesty International was involved in the Russian misinformation campaign. The head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Dmytro Kuleba stressed that Amnesty International creates a "fake balance between the criminal and the victim", and the Minister of Defense Alexei Reznikov called the report "testimony to the loss of adequacy and the way to destroy the authority of the organization.