Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova's answer to a media question about a video depicting how the Ukrainian military is humiliating Russian POWs
29 March 2022 18:34
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Question: There are video clips on the internet showing how fighters from the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) humiliate Russian POWs and they record their murder.
What do the defenders of human rights in the Council of Europe and the OSCE ODIHR say about this?
Maria Zakharova: They remain silent. They don't react in any way to these war crimes and flagrant violations of international humanitarian law. Russophobia blinds them. The same is true of high-ranking EU officials. They do not want to "offend" their underlings in Kiev.
Nobody in Strasbourg has raised the issue of expelling Ukraine from the Council of Europe even though there are plenty reasons to do so. ODIHR Director Matteo Mecacci is focusing his anger on Russia alone. Moral and ethical principles and political integrity have been lost. What can we discuss with these institutions?
This silence means complicity in the committed atrocities. Complicity is also a crime.
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