Human rights situation deteriorating in Ukraine-UN
2022.12.15 09:04
Human rights situation deteriorating in Ukraine-UN
Budrigannews.com – On Thursday, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk stated that additional attacks on Ukraine’s infrastructure could significantly worsen the humanitarian situation and cause additional displacement.
As temperatures plummet, Russia’s attacks on Ukraine’s electricity infrastructure have left millions without heat, clean water, or electricity, and 18 million people now rely on humanitarian assistance.
According to Moscow, the attacks are intended to weaken Ukraine’s ability to fight and force it into negotiations rather than targeting civilians. Kyiv says the assaults are an atrocity.
Following a trip to Ukraine last week, Turk gave a speech to the Human Rights Council in which he stated that Russian strikes were causing “extreme hardship” for millions of people.
“Extra strikes could prompt a further serious disintegration in the compassionate circumstance and flash greater dislodging,” he said. “Unmitigated tragedy and disaster” was his description of the war.
Turk was making a formal presentation to the council of a report that stated that Russian forces had killed at least 441 civilians in the early days of the invasion. In its so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine, Moscow has repeatedly denied that civilians were the target.
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Turk stated that there was “sorely lacking” accountability for such incidents, noting that his office has not been able to locate a single instance in which a member of Russia’s armed forces was held accountable by Moscow for carrying out these killings or failing to prevent them.
Russia, which was removed from the Geneva-based organization earlier this year but is still permitted to participate in discussions, vacated its seat at the meeting. A request for clarification was not immediately met with a response from its diplomatic mission in Geneva.
