The Russian presidential Human Rights Council called on Saturday for the UN to set up an international commission to investigate alleged executions of Russian soldiers in eastern Ukraine.
“We ask for the creation of an international commission to investigate the crimes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the militants who fight alongside them, the exhaustive investigation of all the known facts and the punishment of those who committed them in accordance with the norms, international laws and national legislation, ”says a statement quoted by the Interfax news agency.
On Friday, the The Russian Defense Ministry accused the Ukrainian army of executing at least a dozen prisoners of war, seen in images that will have shown a “methodical and intentional murder”.
Russia had already accused Ukraine in March of having carried out similar executions.
Although the ministry statement did not provide details of the executions, its publication coincided with a complaint made on Friday by pro-Russian authorities in the Donetsk region about a possible massacre of Russian soldiers in the town of Makivka, east of the capital.
The Defense Ministry limited itself to reporting the number of those executed, noting that “new video evidence of mass executions by the Ukrainian military on unarmed Russian POWs confirms the heinous nature of the kyiv regime.”
In turn, the Pro-Russian authorities in Donetsk announced their intention to hand over captured footage of the executions to the United Nations. to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Amnesty International for investigation.
“It is difficult to comment on the video of the execution of surrendered soldiers in the Makivka settlement without going beyond normative terminology,” Daria Morozova, Russian mediator for human rights in Donetsk, told the Russian news agency TASS.
Source: Observadora
