27/04/2022 16:51

Commissioner: cadets for participation in the war against Ukraine are released early in the TOT of Donetsk and Luhansk regions

Illegal armed groups "LDPR" plan to early release persons from educational institutions that train military personnel for the illegal armed formation "LDPR" and send graduates of such institutions to the combat zone.

Among the educational institutions in the temporarily occupied territory in the Donetsk region: Donetsk Higher All-Military Command School, Donetsk Military Lyceum.  T.G.  Beregovoi, Academy of Civil Defense of the IAF "DPR", Specialized Faculty of Legal Training for State Security of Donetsk National University of the IAF "DPR", Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the IAF "DPR" named after  FE Dzerzhinsky, Cadet Corps.  O. Zakharchenko.

In the temporarily occupied territory in the Luhansk region: Luhansk Academy of Internal Affairs.  E.O.  Didorenko, Military Department of Luhansk National Agrarian University, Military Department of Luhansk Volodymyr Dahl University;  military department of Luhansk Pedagogical University, military department of Donbass Technical University, Luhansk Cadet Corps, Alchevsk Cossack Cadet Corps.

On April 24, 2022, the Donetsk Higher All-Military Command School has already graduated early cadets, who will be sent to the zone of active hostilities to perform military tasks of the self-proclaimed "republic".

Among his graduates is already the first victim - on April 26, 2022, while performing "military duty" of an illegal armed group, a graduate of the Donetsk Higher All-Military Command School, Lieutenant Oleg Olegovich Melnikov, born in 1997, died.

Russia's actions violate Article 51 of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.

It strictly prohibits the occupying State from forcing persons under protection, ie those under the control of a party to the conflict or an occupying State of which they are not nationals, to serve in its armed or auxiliary forces.

I appeal to the UN Commission for Investigation Human Rights Violations during the Russian Military Invasion of Ukraine to take into account these facts of human rights violations in Ukraine.