Head of the Human Rights Center, ZNINA (Ukraine), Tetiana Pechonchyk, has accused Russia of committing war crimes against the people of Ukraine.
The human rights defender who is actively working on the forefront of the Russian-Ukraine war said, “As human rights defenders working on the ground, we feel huge crimes against human rights and crimes against humanity are being committed on the ground and this is happening because of Russian oppression.”
According to her, “Russia is deliberately targeting civilians” and committing war crimes in the masses.
Presently, Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office has registered over 38,000 criminal proceedings against Russia based on the war crimes and the number keeps increasing exponentially daily.
“There are also murders and extrajudicial killings of civilians, and the deliberate targeting of infrastructure, especially schools and residential areas by Russian workers and kamikaze drones. Also, there are cases of torture and sexual violence, and the gravest international crimes which we expect will be investigated in the future,” she told Samuel Eshun on the Happy Morning Show.
After a week of deadly strikes against civilians, Kyiv has accused Russia’s military of continuing attacks on its latest target: Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. Multiple facilities in the capital and across the country were struck Tuesday morning, cutting electricity and water supplies and prompting officials to plead with residents to reduce their consumption.
About 70 percent of Ukrainians are determined to keep fighting until their country wins the war against Russia, according to a Gallup poll conducted in early September amid strong Ukrainian counteroffensives that recaptured land in the south and east. The majority of Ukrainians backing the war — 91 percent — defined victory as retaking all territories seized by Russia since 2014, including Crimea, Gallup said.
