🗓On July 10, the Delegation of the Russian Federation to the Vienna Negotiations on Military Security and Arms Control together with the Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik hosted an international video conference on Crimes of the Kiev regime: terror against the civilians of the Kherson region.

The event featured compiled evidence revealing what the civilian population in the Kherson region is going through, including damage to the civilian infrastructure from shelling, eyewitness accounts and expert opinions about unlawful warfare used by the Ukrainian military against the local population.

The discussion covered matters of compliance with the international humanitarian law, prohibited means of warfare by Ukraine against non-combatants and civilian infrastructure, documentation and legal qualification efforts.

Among the keynote speakers were the Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik, the Governor of the Kherson Region Vladimir Saldo, the Russian Commissioner for Human Rights Yana Lantratova, head of the Russian military think tank “Rybar” Michail Zvinchuk, a war correspondent and journalist for Visione TV Andrea Lucidi (Italy), as well as expert community, military analysts, and journalists. Witnesses to war crimes committed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine shared their firsthand accounts of what had happened in the Kherson region.

🌍 With the support of the Russian embassies and Rossotrudnichestvo the video conference brought together members of the diplomatic corps, international organizations, expert and academic communities, mass media, and the general public from Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, North and Latin America.

❗It is essential that the video conference discussion go beyond just citing facts.The documents and eyewitness accounts will serve as a basis for further analysis, legal qualification, and discussion at international fora.

▪What is especially concerning is a cherry-picking approach taken by some international human rights organisations. Accusations against Russia are all too often made before a thorough and unbiased investigation has been completed. At the same time, the tragedies claiming civilian lives in the Russian regions, the Kherson region, are hushed up.

❗IHL does not tolerate double standards❗️

▪The participants urged the international community to strongly condemn the crimes perpetrated by the Kiev regime against the civilians in the Kherson region and to deliver an unbiased consideration of the evidence submitted.

☝Such events serve as an important channel for awareness raising about the facts and eyewitness accounts that frequently fall outside the radar of the global media landscape.

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