Amnesty International report on Ukraine sparked outrage and resignations

“The defensive position does not exempt the Ukrainian military from respecting international humanitarian law,” she said Thursday.

Russian state media cited the report to support Moscow’s claims that Russia only launched attacks against military targets during the war. cited as evidence that Ukraine is using civilians as human shields.

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Multiple Western scholars of international and military law have rejected the human shield claim on social media. They said the report contains inappropriate language that blurs legal distinctions and ignores the fighting situation in Ukraine.

UN war crimes investigator Mark Garlasko tweeted in a private capacity on Friday, accusing Amnesty International of “misunderstanding the law” and Ukraine’s support for the relocation of civilians. It said it was taking steps to protect it.

Ukrainian authorities have repeatedly urged residents of frontline areas to evacuate at the national and regional levels, but tens of thousands of people who have left their homes since the Russian invasion have returned feeling aid has run out or they are unwelcome. .

Ukrainian leaders, including President Volodymyr Zelensky and Ukrainian Foreign and Defense Ministers, said they failed to provide background on Russia’s record of bombing populated areas and attacks on civilians, the report said. are accusing

Amnesty International’s executive director, Callamard, posted a tweet on Friday defending Amnesty’s work and taking aim at its critics.

“Ukrainian and Russian social media mobs and trolls: they are attacking Amnesty International investigations today. This is called war propaganda, disinformation and misinformation. It doesn’t change the facts,” she wrote.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitro Kuleba responded angrily to Mr. Karamar, accusing him of a “false neutrality” and being in the hands of the Kremlin.

“Clearly Amnesty International’s secretary-general has called me a ‘rioter’ and a ‘troll’, but that does not mean that Amnesty International’s report distorts reality and creates a false moral equivalence between perpetrators and victims. I can’t stop saying I’m deriving sexuality and helping Russia tackle disinformation.This is a false ‘neutrality’, not honesty,” Kleba wrote on Twitter.

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