The top of Amnesty Worldwide Ukraine Oksana Pokalchuk has resigned following the discharge of a report by the NGO that accused Ukrainian troopers of placing civilians in danger.
The report stated that Ukrainian forces had been endangering civilians by positioning themselves in residential areas.
She wrote in a press release: “We, on the a part of the Ukrainian workplace, always emphasised that the press launch that the group issued on August 4 ought to have at the very least investigated two sides and brought into consideration the place of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine.”
She added: “Because of this, with out wanting it, the group created materials that appeared like help for Russian narratives. Looking for to guard civilians, this analysis as a substitute grew to become a instrument of Russian propaganda.”
Ukrainian President Zelensky additionally slammed the report for “immoral selectivity” that portrayed the sufferer and the aggressor in the identical manner.
A whole bunch of pro-Ukrainian social media customers stormed the web to submit movies of Russian atrocities in Ukraine.
This led Amnesty Worldwide’s secretary common, Agnès Callamard to decribe the outcry as being dedicated by “social media mobs and trolls”.
Ms Callamard wrote in a tweet: “That is known as battle propaganda, disinformation, misinformation. This gained’t dent our impartiality and gained’t change the information.”
The Overseas Minister of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba hit again accusing Ms Callamard of calling him a “troll”.
He stated: “Apparently @amnestySG calls me a ‘mob’ and a ‘troll’, however this gained’t cease me from saying that its report distorts actuality, attracts false ethical equivalence between the aggressor and the sufferer, and boosts Russia’s disinformation efforts. That is faux ‘neutrality’, not truthfulness.”
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