Гаряча лінія
Гаряча лінія
The military invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation has been going on for nineteen days. The aggressor is shelling cities and towns in almost all regions of our state, intensive hostilities are taking place in 9 regions and the city of Kyiv.
Blatantly violating the rules of the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949, on protection of victims of international armed conflicts, the enemy conducts targeted attacks by aircraft, missiles, multiple rocket launchers on civilian objects – residential buildings, kindergartens, schools, hospitals. The number of civilian casualties and children is growing every hour.
As of March 14, 2022, since the beginning of the invasion, the prosecutor's office has launched a pre-trial investigation into the deaths of 90 children and the injury of 100 more children.
More than 2,500 homes, more than 300 educational institutions and 121 healthcare facilities were destroyed.
The city of Mariupol has been under blockade by rascist troops for two weeks. 2187 civilians were killed in Mariupol. The city is bombed unstoppably. Only yesterday, we had 22 shellings there. Around 100 airbombs have already been dropped on Mariupol. The city faces a humanitarian catastrophe, which affects 400,000 people without water, food and heating, including more than 300 foreigners and the OSCE mission members, who cannot leave the city. Russian troops disrupted the work of most humanitarian convoys - they are blocked or looted.
The torture of the peaceful city of Mariupol by Russian militants is nothing but genocide of the Ukrainian people in accordance with the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
Kharkiv, Okhtyrka, Izium, Chernihiv, many cities and towns of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kyiv, Sumy and Mykolaiv regions are under daily shelling.
The rascist military are using weapons that are strictly prohibited by international humanitarian law to destroy cities and civilians - phosphorus munitions, uncontrolled airbombs, thermobaric weapons, cluster bombs, and anti-personnel mines. The use of such weapons of mass destruction against civilians is a crime against humanity and a violation of the four Geneva Conventions of 1949.
In the temporarily occupied territories, rascist occupiers are terrorizing the local population - beating and torturing people right on the streets, kidnapping passers-by, seizing cars, looting and smashing houses, taking away residents' belongings and food.
Terror of civilians is a war crime defined by the Statute of the International Military Tribunal and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, and a violation of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.
The daily crimes of the rascist army in Ukraine have shaken the whole world. The terrorist country, the Russian Federation, has waged war not against Ukraine, but against all the values of a civilized democratic society. It is the fate of the ideology of this world that is being decided today on the Ukrainian soil.
There is no excuse for these crimes. But still there are those who seek such an excuse and try to impose their policy of terror and genocide on European countries.
I received infromation about the meeting of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation T. Moskalkova with the Secretary General of the European Ombudsman Institute (EOI) J. Siegele, who, in her opinion, understands Russia's policy to resolve «the Ukrainian issue» and conveys this position to his «high-ranking» friends.
J. Siegele should take steps to involve «the pro-Russian former Ombudsman of Ukraine N. Karpachova in the negotiation process with the Russian Federation» and call on me to «distance myself from political ambitions».
In fact, under the control of the Russian Federation, Ombudsman T. Moskalkova conducts subversive activities within the community of European Ombudsmen and does everything to conceal gross human rights violations in Ukraine trying to enlist the support of colleagues.
Such actions of T. Moskalkova are absolutely incompatible with the mandate of the Ombudsman.
Her actions breach the principles of independence and political neutrality of the Ombudsman institution in the Russian Federation, established by the Paris and Venice Principles, and therefore her activities are inconsistent with these documents.
Justification of mass human rights violations discredits the very nature of the Ombudsman institution and cannot be left without a response.
I call on the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI), the Subcommittee on Accreditation (SCA) to revoke the accreditation status in accordance with the Paris Principles of Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation T. Moskalkova and to expel this institution from the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions.