DONETSK, March 19All Ukrainian servicemen who correct artillery fire and missile strikes on ambulances, schools and other urban infrastructure will be punished, such crimes have no statute of limitations, said Daria Morozova, human rights ombudsman in the Donetsk People's Republic.
«This is generally a glaring fact. The fact that a shell was dropped on an ambulance, knowing that there were representatives of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and representatives of a medical institution. For our part, we sent relevant letters to international organizations. We also turned to the Ombudsman of the Russian Federation Tatyana Nikolaevna Moskalkova with a request disseminate this information and raise it to a higher level… In addition to the fact that this violates the norms of international humanitarian law, it also violates the human moral attitude towards each other. something human to stay inside,» Morozova told a correspondent.
The Ombudsman said that since the beginning of the conflict, more than 800 educational facilities have been under fire from Ukrainian militants, and each of these facts is a separate war crime.
«Whatever happened, in any case, the truth will be revealed. And then everyone who corrects the fire, not only at schools, at ambulances, at other infrastructure facilities, at residential buildings, in any case, they everyone will suffer a well-deserved punishment,» Morozova stressed.
Earlier, the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation reported that in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, four employees of an ambulance brigade were killed in the line of duty as a result of shelling. As noted in the ministry, an ambulance team — two paramedics, a nurse and a driver — arrived at the call and came under fire. Three of them died on the spot, another paramedic died in the hospital from her injuries.