Mariupol. File photoUN, May 7.The Ukrainian military establishes firing positions on the upper floors and roofs of residential buildings, placing heavy equipment in arches, while the residents are forced to stay between the upper and lower floors, Vasily Nebenzya, the permanent representative of the Russian Federation at the organization, said at an informal meeting of the UN Security Council. «Even military operations have their own laws. They are called international humanitarian law. Non-use of humanitarian infrastructure for military purposes, non-deployment of heavy weapons in residential areas, non-use of civilians in the form of human shields and decent treatment of prisoners of war,» Nebenzia said. According to him, Russia has reason to believe that all these principles are systematically violated by the Ukrainian military and paramilitaries. «Many witnesses say that the Ukrainian army uses civilians as hostages and human shields. Here is what the defensive tactics of Azov (against whose militants have been prosecuted in Russia) look like in large cities, namely in Mar iupole. Here is how they are located on the first and upper floors of residential buildings, while civilians are held hostage in the center of the building. Tanks are located in arches, if any,» Nebenzya said. Thus, according to him, the entire building turns into an artillery position. in residential areas, often despite the protests of the people living there. .» Bestial attitude towards people. We were like cannon fodder, manipulated. They fired back from the yards from tanks, from machine guns,” one woman said. “All this time, the Azov people were just hiding behind us. They just came, put the tanks in and didn't let them out,» another said.
