Volunteers load canned food into trucks before a humanitarian convoy leaves Krasnodar for KhersonWASHINGTON, Mar 4. The Ukrainian authorities' campaign of posting shocking photos and videos and calling for condemnation of Russia's actions may violate the Geneva Convention, according to the Washington Post. The publication says that the Ukrainian authorities published «terrifying photos and videos of killed and captured Russian soldiers in the hope of undermining the Kremlin's onslaught.» The publication states that the authenticity of the photos and videos cannot be verified independently, as well as the assertions that the footage depicts captured Russian servicemen. The report said military law experts consider the campaign to be in violation of international norms.» On Telegram, Twitter and YouTube, Ukraine's interior ministry has been posting a steady stream of highly graphic images since Sunday, showing the horrors of war and inviting Russians to study them to determine if there are missing loved one in the images,» the report said. «This tactic could be interpreted as a violation of the Geneva Convention, which states that governments must «at all times» protect prisoners of war from «insults and public curiosity,» the report says. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine early on Thursday, February 24. President Vladimir Putin called it the goal of «protecting people who have been subjected to bullying, genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years. For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», bring to justice all war criminals, from responsible for the «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass.The Committee of the State Duma approved a bill on punishment for fakes about the Armed Forces of the Russian FederationAccording to the statement of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But there is no question of the occupation of Ukraine, the President of Russia emphasized. On the morning of March 3, more than 1.6 thousand objects were hit, 62 aircraft, 606 tanks and other armored vehicles were destroyed, and so on. The territory around the Chernobyl (mothballed) and Zaporozhye (operating) nuclear power plants was taken under control. Eight years later, the North Crimean Canal was unblocked, work is underway to restore water supply to the Crimea. The offensive is going on in several directions, Kyiv is blocked from the west. A detailed map of the regions of Ukraine in which the Russian military operates, however, has not yet been officially published. The RF Armed Forces achieved air supremacy over the whole of Ukraine. According to the RF Ministry of Defense, as of March 2, 498 Russian servicemen were killed and 1,597 wounded during the operation. Among the Ukrainian side, according to the Russian military department, the losses are many times higher: more than 2,870 killed and about 3,700 wounded. The Russian Ministry of Defense reports a number of cases of voluntary laying down of arms by Ukrainian troops — they are guaranteed safety and return to their families. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian security forces are deploying multiple rocket launchers right in the residential areas of Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities. Putin called it a terrorist tactic.
