Russian representatives inform world community about mass violations of human rights in Ukraine - Foreign Ministry

MOSCOW, October 3. /TASS/. Russian representatives’ speeches at the U.N. briefing on humanitarian aspects in Ukraine made it possible to inform the world community about an objective picture of the tragedy in the country and name those responsible for it, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday. The briefing was organised by the Russian Permanent Mission to the U.N. Speakers were Russian Emergencies Deputy Minister Vladimir Stepanov, deputy head of the Russian Federal Migration Service Nikolai Smorodin and the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Democracy and the Supremacy of Law, Konstantin Dolgov. They informed the world public about mass and systematic violations of human rights in Ukraine. They emphasised the need “to investigate war crimes related to executions of residents in the Donetsk region. It seems that the crimes were committed by Ukrainian security forces”. “They called for contributing to punishing those guilty of murders on Maidan, in Odessa and Mariupol, and the Malaysia Airlines Boeing crash,” the ministry said. “Diplomats, journalists and the society showed a big interest in the event,” it added. Read more on itar-tass.com