Baku-APA. An official said the renewed edition of the book would cover the period from early April to the middle of June of this year and would include “probably the most shocking humanitarian crimes”
The Russian Foreign Ministry’s White Book on large-scale human rights violations in Ukraine is not “a propaganda product” but an invitation to the international community to act, the Foreign Ministry's human rights ombudsman Konstantin Dolgov told the Rossiya-24 television channel on Wednesday, APA reports quoting ITAR-TASS.
“We have seen reaction to the White Book yet,” Dolgov said. “Some partners are trying to present all this as a propaganda product. But we have facts, and facts cannot be regarded as propaganda.”
The diplomat said the renewed edition of the book would cover the period from early April to the middle of June of this year and would include “probably the most shocking humanitarian crimes”.
Among these were killings of civilians in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions, and events in Mariupol, where Ukrainian law enforcers opened fire from armoured vehicles on those rallying to honour World War II Victory Day, he said. There was also a massacre in the southern city of Odessa, where dozens died in a fire started by Right Sector radicals and supporters from the Maidan Self-Defense Force.