The organization has released a report based on a four-month investigation that concludes that despite other alternatives, Ukrainian armed forces have established military bases in residential areas and carried out attacks from areas inhabited by civilians.
Euskaraz irakurri: Ukrainaren taktika militarrek zibilak arriskuan jartzen dituzte, Amnistia Internazionalaren arabera
The organisation International amnesty (AI) has ensured that the Ukrainian Armed Forces lay threatened until civilian population by establishing military bases in residential areas and launching attacks from areas inhabited by civilians. As he adds, most of the residential areas where the soldiers were stationed were a few miles from the front lines.
In a report based on four months of research, AI indicates that these violations they do not justify anyway Russia’s Random Attacksthat have caused the death of countless civilians.
“Ukrainian forces are endangering civilians by setting up bases and using weapon systems in civilian-populated areas, including schools and hospitals, to fend off the Russian invasion that began in February,” it says.
these tactics violating international humanitarian law and they endanger the civilian population by turning civilian objects into military targets, the note emphasizes. The resulting Russian attacks on populated areas have killed civilians and destroyed civilian infrastructure. According to AI there was viable alternatives that would not endanger the civilian population, such as nearby military bases or wooded areas, or other structures outside residential areas. In addition, AI studies have shown that the Ukrainian military they have not been evacuated the civilian population present in those residential areas that have been converted into military bases.
“The fact that they are in a defensive position does not absolve the Ukrainian armed forces from respecting international humanitarian law,” said Agnès Callamard, secretary-general of the non-governmental organization.
In other specific locations where AI had concluded that Russia had committed war crimesincluding parts of the city of Kharkiv, the organization has found no evidence that Ukrainian troops were in civilian areas illegally attacked by the Russian military.
Four months of research
Among April and July, an AI team spent several weeks investigating Russian attacks in the Kharkiv, Donbas and Mykolaiv regions, inspecting the affected sites. It also interviewed survivors, witnesses and relatives of attack victims, and conducted remote detection and weapons analysis, the statement said. Satellite images were also analyzed to confirm some of these incidents.
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