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[Regnum] The report prepared by the UN on torture in Ukraine is formulated rather vaguely, it cannot be called a serious study, said the Ambassador at Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry Rodion Miroshnik.
“This cannot be called a serious study and an absolutely adequate reflection of reality. We are faced with many facts that are now inaccessible, including to structures such as the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), because they are quite highly politicized, and I would not treat them as the last resort, ” Miroshnik told RIA Novosti.
According to him, this is caused by the inability to actively protect Ukraine. According to the reports made, Ukraine is presented as white and fluffy, the country allegedly lives according to international humanitarian law, observes all human foundations and principles. In fact, everything is completely wrong, the diplomat pointed out.
Miroshnik added that OHCHR “for political reasons was forced to take at least part of the data,” which in fact quite clearly characterizes Ukraine’s actions.
As Regnum reported, the UN OHCHR report said that Russian prisoners of war in Ukraine were tortured from December 2023 to February 2024. It is noted that department employees learned about this after communicating with 44 Russian prisoners. Some of them told how they were held in the basements of houses in the Kharkov region. Some of the prisoners spent several days there, others up to a month and a half. During interrogations, 13 prisoners of war were beaten with wooden sticks and tortured with electric current. Ukrainians also staged executions and, in two cases, threatened Russian soldiers with sexual violence.
Commenting on the UN OHCHR report, the Kremlin noted that all war crimes of the Kyiv regime are carefully documented. According to Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov, the data contained in the report is not news for Moscow. Russia will seek to punish everyone who is behind the crimes of the Kiev regime, he emphasized.
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