The Office of the UN Commissioner for Human Rights, after analysing information from a peculiar investigation group, announced that the Russian side did not commit genocide crimes in Ukraine. However, it is vain to look for information about this subject in Polish-language mainstream media.
It would contradict the uncritically accepted communicative of alleged Russian savagery for political use.
The Mass of Suffering
W UN report We read about the tragic consequences of the war. By February 15, this year's life, primarily as a consequence of artillery and rocket fire, was to lose 8006 civilians. 13 287 civilians were injured.
8 million people left Ukraine, going beyond its borders, and 5.4 million were forced to leave their home and decision to another part of the country. According to UN experts, 18 million Ukrainians request humanitarian aid.
The War Crimes of Both Parties
The UN peculiar Committee has recognised that both parties have committed war crimes and, perhaps, crimes against humanity during a phase of direct conflict that has already lasted over a year. They include mainly Russian strikes made close civilian objects (named Mariupol, Siliconczuk and Kramatorsk), as well as rocket shelling of energy infrastructure. However, the latter, as experts say, were not necessarily consciously carried out against the civilian population.
A group of UN observers informed about Ukrainian war crimes, including in Izjuma, where troops under Kiev utilized cluster bombs and anti-personnel mines, contrary to Ukraine's ratified convention on their ban.
While the Isium was controlling the Russians, "On May 9, 2022, a residential territory was fired upon, resulting in 3 deaths and six injuries. On 14 July 2022, the city marketplace area was shelled, in which 2 older women were injured. On July 16, 2022, respective missiles hit a residential area, including a kindergarten where 250 people were hiding. 2 older people died” – reads the report.
Live shields
According to the UN, both sides utilized civilian facilities to carry out armed activities, leading to a threat to the wellness and life of civilians and frequently ended tragically. The Russian side was reminded of military presence on the territory of the Zaporoska Atomic Power Plant.
The Ukrainian side regularly deployed military units on civilian premises. "This was the case, among others, in Chernihov, where territorial defence forces deployed their staff at school 18 and any military forces at school 21". These schools were besides utilized to distribute humanitarian aid to the population, and as a result, their firing resulted in civilian casualties.
Beet
The celebrated Bucz was, according to the United Nations, the site where the Russians committed a war crime. The Commission considered that 68 people, mostly men, died there. Let us remind that Kiev insists that 461 people were shot there.
Many another data collected show a number of crimes committed on civilians, primarily in the first weeks of the war, in the Kiev Oblast. However, the UN Commission has found no evidence of any organization to the genocide. He said This is the mission-leading Norwegian lawyer Erik Møse.
Repressions
The Commission noted a number of information on the usage of torture in the context of mass repression by the Ukrainian safety authorities against the population suspected of collaborationism. Fake executions, sleep deprivation and various forms of degrading treatment have been used. The Commission notes that these threads should be re-examined.
The study points to a number of war crimes committed by both parties, characteristic of all armed conflicts. However, it does not justify the alleged Western propaganda in this regard.
MP
