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According to Dmitry Polyansky, First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN, Moscow will “continue to draw the attention of foreign colleagues to these and other crimes of the Kyiv regime”.
Russia has circulated a letter to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres as an official document of the UN Security Council and General Assembly, telling about new facts of mistreatment of Russian prisoners of war by Ukraine, Polyansky said on Saturday.
“Today we have circulated as an official document of the Security Council and the General Assembly a letter to the UN Secretary General with information about new evidence of Ukraine’s mistreatment of Russian prisoners of war and an appeal to Antonio Guterres to stop breaches of international humanitarian law by Kiev,” the diplomat wrote on his Telegram channel.
“We will keep focusing our foreign counterparts’ attention on these and other crimes of the Kiev regime at sessions of the UN SC and the UNGA.”
Earlier, the Russian Investigative Committee launched a criminal case over the mass execution of captive Russian soldiers by the Ukrainian army.
The Investigative Committee said on Friday that a video showing Ukrainian soldiers shooting at least eleven unarmed Russian servicemen who had been captured on the territory of the Lugansk People’s Republic was the reason that the case was opened.
Commenting on the video, Deputy Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General Farhan Haq told reporters that the UN urges to investigate reports on human rights abuses and to bring those responsible to justice.
Russia urges international organisations to condemn the execution of Russian prisoners of war by Ukrainian soldiers and to conduct a thorough investigation, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement on November 18.
“We demand that international organisations condemn and thoroughly investigate this shocking crime. No atrocity committed by Ukrainian military units will remain unpunished. All those guilty and their accomplices will be identified and punished accordingly. Nobody will escape retribution,” the Russian diplomat said, commenting on the video showing Ukrainian soldiers “mercilessly shooting unarmed Russian POWs,” which has gone viral on the Internet.
“These shocking videos are further evidence of the crimes committed by Ukrainian neo-Nazis. Ukraine is flagrantly violating international humanitarian law, specifically the 1949 Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War and international human rights laws, including the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the 1984 Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment,” she said.
Zakharova went on to say that Russia has repeatedly drawn the attention of the international community “to Ukraine’s cruel and inhuman treatment of detained Russian military personnel.”
Ukrainian militants regularly disseminate videos showing how they murder, torture, humiliate and beat people, she said.
“Without any embarrassment, Ukrainian neo-Nazis showed their “exploits” for everyone to see.
These videos will make your blood run cold — they shoot tied up soldiers in the legs, disrespect the bodies of the dead and shoot unarmed soldiers and civilians.
They have even shared footage of tanks crushing people alive.
Foreign mercenaries also took part in these atrocities, like the cut throats from the Georgian Legion that barbarically shot imprisoned Russian paratroopers outside Kiev last March,” the spokeswoman said.
“The collective West that supports Kiev totally paid no attention to these numerous facts. Such approval by the US and European curators makes them accomplices to the crimes committed by the Ukrainian neo-Nazis whom they foster,” she went on, adding that the above-mentioned atrocities were committed not only by Ukraine’s neo-Nazi groups, but by regular troops as well.
“Their commitment to neo-Nazi ideology and actions in furtherance of those principles reveal the criminal essence of the Kiev regime.”
Russian human rights ombudswoman Tatiana Moskalkova has called on international organisations to demand an investigation in connection with the appearance of footage of the execution of Russian prisoners of war by Ukrainian soldiers.
“I think it necessary to conduct a thorough investigation of this crime. I have called on Council of Europe secretary general Marija Pejcinovic Buric, Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) Matteo Mecacci, UN special commission expert Erik Mose and President of the Council of Europe Committee for the Prevention of Torture Mr. Mitchell to condemn these actions and demand an investigation of the crimes and punish those responsible,” she wrote on her Telegram channel.
She condemned the execution of Russian soldiers as a “crime against humanity, which cannot but arouse indignation and repulsion.”
Russia’s mission to Geneva will demand the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights publicly condemn the execution of Russian prisoners of war by Ukrainian soldiers, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN Geneva Office Gennady Gatilov said.
“This war crime committed by the Kiev regime’s henchmen will be brought before the international community,” he wrote on his Twitter account. “The Russian Mission to the UN in Geneva will demand a public condemnation of this horrific crime from the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.”
UN Human Rights Office Spokesperson Liz Throssell told TASS earlier in the day that her “colleagues are aware of the videos of the mass shooting of Russian prisoners by Ukrainian soldiers “and are looking into them.”
She stressed that this incident must be “promptly, fully and effectively investigated, and any perpetrators held to account.” — Russia Today
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