Ukrainian military in KyivMOSCOW, Apr 4The Ukrainian authorities violate the rights of illegal foreigners who are still in the detention center for migrants in the village of Zhuravichi in the Volyn region, in addition, the Ukrainian military began to use the same building as a base, writes the German magazine Spiegel.According to the magazine, we are talking about the building former barracks, which in 2007, with the support of the European Union in the amount of at least 1.7 million euros, was converted into a detention center for illegal migrants seeking to get to Europe. It is emphasized that after the outbreak of hostilities, migrants were not evacuated, and people from India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Sudan or Pakistan still remain in the «prison». «/>The media noted the level of recruitment of radicals in Ukraine As of the end of March, «dozens of prisoners» were still in the institution, the publication says. In a combat environment, this state of affairs is a violation of international law, the magazine stressed. «The Geneva Convention obliges all parties to a conflict to protect civilians under their control from threats of conflict,» said Michael Flynn of the Global Detention Project related to the rights of refugees and migrants. According to the magazine, the prisoners themselves claim that after the outbreak of hostilities, the Ukrainian military again began to use the former barracks «as a base.» This is also indicated by video footage studied by human rights activists from the international non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch, the newspaper writes. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
