Cars of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Archival photoMOSCOW, May 24.The International Committee of the Red Cross acknowledged the delay in providing a response to the request of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation Tatyana Moskalkova about Russian prisoners of war in Ukraine and promises to provide it as soon as possible, RIA Novosti said in the press service of the organization. Earlier, the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, Tatyana Moskalkova, said that she had addressed the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Peter Maurer, with a request to provide information about Russian prisoners of war in Ukraine and help visit them. «Yes, we confirm that we have received a letter from Moskalkova. Indeed, there has been a delay in providing an official response, and we are working to provide a response as soon as possible, «the message received by the agency says. The ICRC also stressed that, within the framework of its mandate received in accordance with the Geneva convention III, and with the consent of all parties, the International Committee of the Red o Cross visits prisoners of war belonging to all parties to the armed conflict on the territory of Ukraine. Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine on 24 February. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv 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. .jpg» />Ukrainian nationalists placed firing positions in the schools of Odessa
