Ukrainian military in KyivMOSCOW, Apr 8Western countries turn a blind eye to the problem of ill-treatment of Russian prisoners of war in Ukraine, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Center for Defense Control of the Russian Federation, said on Friday. also other international human rights organizations, showing complete indifference to the humanitarian issues initiated by the Russian Federation, have so far not reacted in any way to the statements of the Russian side about the monstrous torture and cruel reprisals against Russian prisoners of war,» he said. All the facts of the inhuman attitude of Ukrainian nationalists to Russian prisoners of war are recorded and sent to the UN, the ICRC, the OSCE and embassies, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Center for Defense Control of the Russian Federation, said on Friday. «Given the documented numerous facts of gross violations of Geneva Convention, testifying to the inhuman treatment of Russian prisoners of war, the Russian Federation is making every effort to ensure that real, truthful information about the atrocities of the Kiev regime becomes the property of the entire civilized world. To this end, all incoming reports about the crimes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and nationalist battalions are carefully recorded, and generalized materials are sent to international organizations, including the UN, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the OSCE and the embassies of foreign countries,» Mizintsev said.
Western media: Azov militants are not Nazis. Because they are not Germans, Mizintsev recalled that on April 7, 2022, at a press conference in Brussels, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called for an investigation into all reports of war crimes in Ukraine, but «hypocritically refused to comment on videos about the killings of Russian prisoners of war by Ukrainian nationalists,» since there was nothing specific about Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called it the goal of «protecting people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification Ukraine». According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, as of March 25, the Armed Forces completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was the liberation of Donbass. district center south of Donetsk. Currently, there are battles for Mariupol, the allied forces of the Russian Federation and the DPR control more than 90% of the area of the largest city on the Sea of Azov. In the LPR, according to a statement by the Russian Ministry of Defense on March 25, 93% of the territory of the former Lugansk region was taken under control. Only the cities of Severodonetsk and Lisichansk, as well as a number of other settlements of this agglomeration, remain under the rule of Kyiv.
