Lithuania protests to Russia over the mass shelling of Ukraine
Republic of Lithuania - Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Updated 2025-07-31
On 31 July, the chargé d'affaires ad interim of the Embassy of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Lithuania was handed a note of protest over the mass shelling of Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson and other regions of Ukraine by Russian military forces this week, which resulted in dozens of civilian casualties and hundreds injured, including passengers on an evacuation bus and several imprisoned persons.
The note of protest also stresses that the military attacks by the Russian Federation against civilians in Ukraine and the systematic ill-treatment of prisoners of war are unacceptable and unlawful and gravely violate the Geneva Conventions on the Treatment of Prisoners of War, the United Nations Convention on the Prohibition of Torture and other fundamental norms of international humanitarian law.
The Republic of Lithuania will continue to make every effort to ensure that those responsible for these and other war crimes, including the bombing of the Olenivka prisoner of war camp by Russian forces three years ago, which killed at least 53 Ukrainian prisoners of war, are brought to justice.
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