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Mykhailo Podolyak, Zelensky’s office advisor, stated he believed Amnesty International was spreading Russian disinformation by accusing Ukrainian Armed Forces of endangering civilians.
Recently the organization slammed Ukrainian defenders for using civilian infrastructure as shelter from Russian shelling.
“Being in a defensive position does not exempt the Ukrainian military from compliance with international humanitarian law,” said Amnesty International Secretary General Agnès Callamard.
“Ukrainian forces have put civilians in harm’s way by establishing bases and operating weapons systems in populated residential areas, including in schools and hospitals, as they repelled the Russian invasion that began in February,” the organization reports.
In turn, Mykhailo Podolyak said that the threat to peaceful Ukrainians was coming not from the Armed Forces, which protect them at the cost of their own lives, but the Russian military, who are responsible for many of the most brutal war crimes.
