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75/06.08.22

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To the progressive community of Europe and the world

regarding the Amnesty International report

 

 

Preamble

 

The day before, the head of the international human rights organization Amnesty International (NGO) Agnès Callamard presented a "new study", namely, "Ukraine: military endangering civilians by locating forces in residential areas - a new study areas - new research)".

 

The worthless report published has nothing to do with neutrality, impartiality, empathy and the protection of civilians. It supports the side of evil, is  manipulative and facilitates the actions of the aggressor country.

 

Amnesty International said the Ukrainian military is putting civilians at risk by setting up bases and placing weapons in residential areas, including schools and hospitals, while defending against a full-scale Russian invasion.

 

War in the conditions of the city (urban warfare) is not prohibited by international law, and is a violation only in fact. Ukraine has signed the Declaration on School Safety and, together with the civilized world, adheres to human standards.

 

To protect the civilian population, the Armed Forces of Ukraine take the maximum of all possible measures. In places of active hostilities, the Government of the country stopped the educational process. During the war, Ukraine evacuates the population, provides support both to internally displaced persons and to those citizens who found themselves outside of Ukraine, saving their lives.

 

Today, the Ukrainian people are defending themselves against the attack of the aggressor country, which violates all norms of international law, which rapes, tortures and kills our children and subjects the civilian population to medieval torture. Therefore, it is the leaving of populated areas of Ukraine alone with military personnel of the Russian Federation that poses the greatest threat to human rights.

 

The behavior of Amnesty International is not about finding and conveying the truth to the world, creating a false balance between the criminal and the victim, between the country that destroys the Ukrainian nation, incinerates cities and villages, and the country that desperately fights and protects its people and the whole continent from the bloody horde . The only thing that poses a threat to the lives of Ukrainians is the army of Russian torturers and rapists who came to Ukraine to commit genocide.

 

Abstract of the analysis of the report

 

 

ad 1. First of all, at the beginning of the report, the photo published by Ms. Callamard with Ukrainian soldiers-defenders near Slovyansk does not correlate at all with the topic and content of the "new study", does not reflect "schools and hospitals" that were allegedly "used by Ukrainian troops as military bases » ... Therefore, the documentary photo-fact and statement are groundless, subjective and scientifically unrelated to the topic and content of the publication.

 

ad 2. "Ukraine's tactics violate international humanitarian law, as they turn civilian objects into military targets." This statement of Ms. Callamard is deliberately completely distorted. Because it is the Russian aggressor who is shooting at multi-story residential buildings of peaceful Ukrainian residents of Kharkiv, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Mariupol, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Lysychansk, Chuguyevo and many dozens and hundreds of other peaceful settlements of victims of Ukraine. At the same time, it is the Russian invading forces who barbarically destroy peaceful civilian public structures throughout Ukraine, such as hospitals, dispensaries, pharmacies, higher scientific institutions (Medical University in Kharkiv), museums, theaters, churches (Sviatohirska Lavra), roads, communications. So, the statement is deliberately twisted in favor of the Russian attacker-aggressor.

 

ad 3. Ms. Callamard's claim that Amnesty International does not know that "the Ukrainian military asked or helped civilians to evacuate from nearby buildings, failing to take possible precautions to protect civilians" is a deliberately false fact and does not correspond to reality.

 

ad 4. Callamard's "Ukrainian government should immediately deploy its forces away from populated areas or evacuate the civilian population from areas where the military operates" - a statement that is dilettantish and should be addressed to the Russian barbarian invaders, not the Ukrainian defending soldiers, which defend the legal territorial integrity of the Ukrainian state in accordance with international legal treaties and acts.

 

ad 5. The description of individual "witnesses" cannot be scientifically and statistically reliable and was taken by Ms. Callamard as the basis of this report as a "new study" ...

 

Conclusions

 

1. 1) The published "new research" by Mrs  Agnes Callamard on behalf of Amnesty International is a slander with the spread of known false fabrications and malicious statements that disgrace the Armed Forces of Ukraine and its reputation in the eyes of the world public in a brutal war of aggression with side of the Russian Federation. Also, the report is consistent with one of the narratives of false propaganda of the Russian Federation that has been heard since 2014.

 

1. 2) We condemn the report published by the head of Amnesty International, Ms. Agnes Callamard, as one-sided and purposeful disinformation to accuse and denigrate the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which are restraining the Russian military invasion and protecting Ukraine's own civilian population from the criminal aggressor.

 

1. 3) We condemn the genocide of the Russian military invaders-terrorists and rapists against the Ukrainian civilian population in the unjust war in Ukraine.

 

1. 4) We demand the immediate removal of Agnes Callamard  from her duties as Secretary General of the Amnesty International.

 

1. 5) We propose to create an international public commission to investigate the "new study" published by Mrs. Agnes Callamard as Secretary General of the Amnesty International in her scandalous report dated August 4, 2022.

 

1. 6) We recommend to comprehensively and objectively verify the fact of deliberate purposeful acquittal of the Russian criminal-aggressor Ms. Agnes Callamard, Amnesty International and her accusations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as a defender of its people and the legal territory of Ukraine, through the prism of the probable fact of international corruption.

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         Chairman of theSupervisory Board                                                                                                             Maryna Stavniychuk      

         Chairman of the Foundation                                                                                                                      Galyna  Zakharchenko

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Members of the Supervisory Board

 

Mykola Korpan — doctor of medical sciences, professor of the Department of General Surgery No. 1 of the National Medical University named after O.O. Bogomolets, Kyiv, founder and head of the International Institute of Cryosurgery, Rudolfinerhaus Clinic, Vienna, Austria, President and Honorary President of the World Society of Cryosurgery, Honorary Member of the Japanese Society of Cryogenic Medicine, member of the Main Council of SFULT (World Federation of Ukrainian Medical Societies), Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in the field of science and technology;

Олександр Охріменко — командир  14- тої окремої механізованої бригади  імені Князя Романа Великого, полковник Збройних сил України , український кадровий  військовослужбовець , учасник_cc781905- 5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_ Russian-Ukrainian war ;

Volodymyr Pylypenko — candidate of legal sciences, honored lawyer of Ukraine, director of the Ukrainian Center for Socio-Legal Studies, representative of culture and education of the Region of Sicily and the commune of Agrigento in Ukraine;

Iryna Mazur — doctor of medical sciences,   professor   of the stomatology department of P. L. Shupyk National University of Health Care of Ukraine, laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in the field of science and technology, President of the NGO "Association of Dentists of Ukraine", Representative of Ukraine in the World Federation of Dentists (FDI), Representative of Ukraine in the Standing Committee of Doctors of Europe (SRME), President of the International Dental Association "Commonwealth" of Eastern Europe  Academy of Dentistry International (ADI).

 

Fund partners

 

Olena Bilokon — Honored Artist of Ukraine, soloist of the National Presidential Orchestra, teacher of folk singing at the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts;

Alfredo Prado - Rector of the Academy of Arts in Agrigento "MICHELANGELO" (Sicily). In 2019, the Academy accepted students from Ukraine for the first time and plans to open a representative office in Kyiv. He is one of the initiators of organizing regular annual days of Ukrainian culture in Agrigento;

Guo Kai is a candidate of sciences majoring in Art History. In cooperation with the Chinese Embassy, city councils of Ukrainian cities, regularly organized investment meetings, in particular in the Ukrainian agricultural complex, contributed to the establishment of Chinese tourism in Ukraine and the opportunity for Chinese students to study in Ukrainian universities in Kyiv, Lviv, Kharkiv;

Mykhailo Danyliv - Reverend Father of the Fastiv district of the Church of St. Nicholas in the city of Fastov Archpriest;

Volodymyr Skubiy — Director of "COND-CLASS" LLC, a reliable partner not only in Ukraine, but also abroad, a philanthropist;

Katie Dolan - Manager of the successful businesses River's Edge Ranch, LLC, Katie's Kennels™ and Green Isle Rentals, LLC in Red Lake Falls,  State of Minnesota, USA,._cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b -136bad5cf58d_ She is a member of IBPSA (International Building Performance Simulation Association) and IDTA.

 

Famous scientists, public figures, businessmen

 

Anatoly H. ZAGORODNY — Academician, President of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine;

 

Volodymyr P. SHYROBOKOV — Academician of the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine;

 

Vitaly I. TSYMBALYUK — Academician, President of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine;

 

Mykhailo M. POPLAVSKY   — Rector of the National University of Culture and Arts, author of the idea and general producer of the nationwide television project "Ukrainian Song of the Year";

 

Viktor V. HORBACH — Advisor to the President of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine;

 

Volodymyr G. PALANT — Founder and General Director of "GreenCert" LLC, initiator and co-author of numerous national and international projects, philanthropist;

 

Serhii P. IVASHCHUK — Deputy of the Khmelnytskyi Regional Council, General Director of the Research and Production Agricultural Firm "Perlyna Podillya" LLC;

 

Yaroslava FERGOLEN — Doctor, Chairman of the Ukrainian Medical Society in Germany,   member of the Main Council of SFULT (World Federation of Ukrainian Medical Societies);

 

Volodymyr M. LESHCHENKO — Deputy Director of the research and production firm "Puls", Kyiv, Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in the field of science and technology;

 

Yulia O. KRAMARENKO — Director of Optima-Engineering LLC, Kryvyi Rih;

 

Anatoly P. FEDORUK — Mayor of the city of Bucha, Kyiv region.