“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine summoned a representative of the ICRC for explanations regarding the statement condemning the strikes in Ukraine and Russia.โ, โ write: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: message of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
Details: In its statement, the Red Cross condemned “recent attacks on critical infrastructure in Ukraine and Russia“.
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Enumerating the affected cities, the mission mentioned Kyiv, Dnipro, Donetsk and Russian Belgorod.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Andriy Sybiga, called such a statement by the ICRC shameful. The head of the Red Cross delegation in Ukraine was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for an explanation.
Direct speech: “False moral equivalence between an aggressor and a defending country is unacceptable. Unlike Russia, Ukraine acts within the framework of international humanitarian law and our inalienable right to self-defense.
Not surprisingly, the ICRC’s reputation is in crisis as a result of such statements, which whitewash Russian war crimes and further undermine the organization’s credibility, especially given its long-standing failure to provide systematic access to Ukrainian prisoners of war and civilians illegally detained by Russia…
I also invite the people who wrote and approved this statement to leave their warm offices, come to Ukraine and spend a day in a cold house. Perhaps a sense of reality will return to them.”
Prehistory:
On January 14, President Volodymyr Zelenskyi announced the introduction of a state of emergency in the energy sector.