““Our organization did not work on the territory of Russia and still does not work. And on the territory of Ukraine, the Russian Federation itself is “undesirable,” the organization said”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“The organization is engaged in discrediting Russia’s domestic and foreign policy, trying to create conditions for destabilizing the socio-political situation in the country,” the report says.
The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office claims that after the start of the war, the Ukrainian human rights organization allegedly participated in the promotion of the policy of countries unfriendly to Russia and contributed to the international isolation of Moscow.
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ZMINA, in particular, cooperated with the Czech People In Need (“People in Need”) and the American Freedom House, recognized in Russia as “undesirables”, and the work of the center is financed by the authorities of the USA, Great Britain, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, and Switzerland, the prosecutor’s office says.
The head of the board of the ZMINA center Tetyana Pechonchyk said in response that the organization will continue to collect and document the facts of war crimes committed by Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine.
“Our organization did not work on the territory of Russia and still does not work. And on the territory of Ukraine, the Russian Federation itself is “undesirable”, which invaded here in 2014, occupied Crimea, started a war in Donbas, and from 2022 – on the territory of the entire country, which led to the death of tens of thousands of people. Russia, whose army commits massive war crimes and crimes against humanity every day. Kills, tortures, rapes, deports Ukrainians. Russia, which is headed by a criminal suspected by the International Criminal Court,” Pechonchyk said in a comment.
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ZMINA Human Rights Center was founded in 2012. He is engaged in the prevention of torture, works in the field of supporting freedom of speech and provides support to activists and human rights defenders. Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the center has focused on documenting the hostilities taking place in the zone.
In October, one of the founders of the organization, human rights defender and journalist Maksym Butkevich, returned to Ukraine during the exchange of prisoners between Moscow and Kyiv under the formula “95 for 95”.