The International Committee of the Red Cross has made at least five visits to Ukrainian war criminals since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a Russian diplomat said on Thursday, while insisting that “practical arrangements” were delaying a criminal where dozens of war criminals have died.
Gennady Gatilov, Russia’s ambassador in Geneva, said it was unreasonable to think that Red Cross groups would simply stop at all of Ukraine’s more than 6,000 prisoners of war. detention centers.
The aid firm said on Sunday it had a team of 11 people fit to detain all prisoners of war in separatist-controlled spaces in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, in addition to detainees at Olenivka prison.
The Russian and Ukrainian governments blamed each other for a July 29 attack that destroyed a separatist-run barracks. At least 53 Ukrainian members of the war were killed and dozens more wounded, according to the Russian and separatist government.
The International Red Cross “will check for internment and treatment, deliver materials and ensure that prisoners of war can touch their families,” the organization said.
The Red Cross reiterated that it had not stopped at all the sites where it sought to stop in connection with the war in Ukraine.
“Blaming the ICRC for being denied in a complete and timely manner does not help prisoners of war or their families,” he said.
Gatilov said security considerations were to blame for the delay of some other imaginable stopover at Olenivka prison, a deal controlled by the Donetsk People’s Republic, subsidized by Moscow.
“What the ICRC needs is the protection of these visits,” he told reporters. “Sometimes. . . it is easy to provide this kind of security because the bombing continues, especially the bombing of the Olenivka region. “
“Our Red Cross counterparts, you understand. They can still do it,” he said. “They will do it in the future. And all we want is to talk about the practical modalities of this visit. From a security point of view, first.
Jason Straziuso, spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross, declined to say how many prisoners of war or places of internment members the organization had visited. He said the figures were part of a “confidential and bilateral dialogue” with components of the conflict. .
“While we were allowed to reach a higher level, the mandatory practical arrangements for conducting a stopover may not be completed in a way that ensures the protection of our equipment,” he said.
Alexander Pchelyakov, spokesman for the Russian project in Geneva, clarified after Gatilov’s presentation the five dates on which ICRC groups had already visited Ukrainian prisoners of war: in Sevastopol, Crimea, on April 11, May 19 and August 4; on May 19 in Olenivka and the coastal city of Novoazovsk on the Sea of Azov; and on July 28 to Mulino, a rural Russian domain near the city of Nizhny Novgorod.
In divergent comments on the findings of UN human rights experts and other independent observers, Gatilov claimed that Ukrainian POWs were “treated well” while Russians detained by the Ukrainian government were subjected to torture and “psychological” pressure. ” and “physics”. Conventions.
A team of UN experts last month cited reports of beatings, electric shocks and forced nudity in Russian detention centers.
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