MOSCOW — The Kremlin on Wednesday dismissed allegations by the United Nations that Russia had violated youngsters’s rights in Ukraine and mentioned that, quite the opposite, its armed forces have been rescuing youngsters from battle zones.
One report, launched on Tuesday, accused Russia of detaining greater than 800 civilians, a few of them youngsters, and of executing 77 civilians because the battle started in February of final 12 months.
In one other report, commissioned by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for the UN Security Council and revealed final week, Russia stands accused of getting killed 136 youngsters in 2022.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov advised an everyday briefing that Moscow “firmly rejects” such accusations.
“Our military, repeatedly risking their own lives, took measures to save children, to take them out from under shelling, which, by the way, was carried out by the armed forces of Ukraine against civilian infrastructure,” he mentioned.
Russia recurrently rejects accusations of human rights abuses in Ukraine and in addition denies intentionally focusing on civilians in what it calls a “special military operation.”
Tuesday’s 36-page UN report, based mostly on 70 visits to detention facilities and greater than 1,000 interviews, additionally mentioned that Ukraine had violated worldwide legislation by arbitrarily detaining civilians, however on a significantly smaller scale.
In final week’s report, compiled by Virginia Gamba, Guterres’ particular consultant for kids and armed battle, the UN additionally verified that Russian armed forces and affiliated teams had maimed 518 youngsters and carried out 480 assaults on colleges and hospitals throughout 2022.
Russian armed forces additionally used 91 youngsters as human shields, in line with the report.
The International Criminal Court in March issued an arrest warrant towards Russian President Vladimir Putin and Moscow’s envoy for kids’s rights, Maria Lvova-Belova, accusing them of the battle crime of illegally deporting youngsters from Ukraine.
Moscow mentioned the warrants have been legally void as Russia was not a member of the ICC.
Russia has not hid a program beneath which it has introduced 1000’s of Ukrainian youngsters to Russia, however presents it as a humanitarian marketing campaign to guard orphans and youngsters deserted within the battle zone. — Reuters
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
