{"id":4337,"date":"2023-02-27T22:51:58","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T22:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londonpost.news\/?p=4337"},"modified":"2023-03-23T18:36:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T18:36:34","slug":"un-secretary-general-points-to-massive-rights-violations-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/news\/un-secretary-general-points-to-massive-rights-violations-in-ukraine\/2023\/02\/27\/admin1\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Secretary-General points to ‘massive’ rights violations in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

GENEVA<\/span> (AP)<\/span> –<\/span>UN<\/span> Secretary-General<\/span> Ant\u00f3nio<\/span> Guterres<\/span> said<\/span> in<\/span> a<\/span> speech<\/span> at<\/span> the<\/span> UN-backed<\/span> Human<\/span> Rights<\/span> Council<\/span> in<\/span> Geneva<\/span> that<\/span> the<\/span> Russian<\/span> aggression<\/span> had<\/span> “caused<\/span> widespread<\/span> death,<\/span> destruction<\/span> and<\/span> displacement”.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>After<\/span> Russia’s<\/span> failure<\/span> to<\/span> capture<\/span> Kiev<\/span> in<\/span> the<\/span> first<\/span> weeks<\/span> of<\/span> its<\/span> February<\/span> 24<\/span> invasion<\/span> last<\/span> year<\/span> and<\/span> a<\/span> series<\/span> of<\/span> humiliating<\/span> setbacks<\/span> in<\/span> the<\/span> fall,<\/span> Russia<\/span> stabilized<\/span> its<\/span> fronts<\/span> and<\/span> Moscow<\/span> illegally<\/span> annexed<\/span> it<\/span> in<\/span> September.<\/span> It<\/span> is<\/span> concentrating<\/span> its<\/span> efforts<\/span> on<\/span> occupying<\/span> the<\/span> four<\/span> provinces<\/span> Donetsk,<\/span> Kherson,<\/span> Luhansk,<\/span> Zaporizhia.<\/span> Ukraine,<\/span> on<\/span> the<\/span> other<\/span> hand,<\/span> hopes<\/span> to<\/span> launch<\/span> new<\/span> counteroffensives<\/span> and<\/span> regain<\/span> more<\/span> of<\/span> its<\/span> occupied<\/span> territories,<\/span> using<\/span> major<\/span> tanks<\/span> and<\/span> other<\/span> new<\/span> weapons<\/span> promised<\/span> by<\/span> the<\/span> West.<\/span> advertisement<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The<\/span> attacks<\/span> on<\/span> civilians<\/span> and<\/span> civilian<\/span> infrastructure<\/span> have<\/span> caused<\/span> heavy<\/span> casualties<\/span> and<\/span> great<\/span> suffering,”<\/span> Guterres<\/span> said.<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\n<\/span>Fierce<\/span> fighting<\/span> for<\/span> territory<\/span> in<\/span> eastern<\/span> Ukraine<\/span> was<\/span> the<\/span> focus<\/span> of<\/span> Sunday<\/span> at<\/span> a<\/span> Ukrainian<\/span> field<\/span> hospital<\/span> treating<\/span> wounded<\/span> wounded<\/span> in<\/span> a<\/span> fierce<\/span> battle<\/span> over<\/span> the<\/span> devastated<\/span> city<\/span> of<\/span> Bakhmut.Battered<\/span> and<\/span> exhausted<\/span> soldiers<\/span> on<\/span> stretchers.<\/span> Here<\/span> we<\/span> come.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Meanwhile,<\/span> Belarusian<\/span> opposition<\/span> activists<\/span> claimed<\/span> that<\/span> a<\/span> military<\/span> airfield<\/span> outside<\/span> the<\/span> Belarusian<\/span> capital<\/span> housing<\/span> Russian<\/span> fighter<\/span> jets<\/span> was<\/span> attacked<\/span> by<\/span> Belarusian<\/span> guerrillas<\/span>.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>A<\/span> year<\/span> ago,<\/span> Russia<\/span> used<\/span> the<\/span> territory<\/span> of<\/span> its<\/span> ally<\/span> Belarus<\/span> to<\/span> invade<\/span> Ukraine.<\/span> Belarus<\/span> continues<\/span> to<\/span> have<\/span> Russian<\/span> troops,<\/span> fighter<\/span> jets<\/span> and<\/span> other<\/span> weapons.<\/span> Speaking<\/span> in<\/span> Geneva,<\/span> Mr.<\/span> Guterres<\/span> cited<\/span> cases<\/span> of<\/span> sexual<\/span> violence,<\/span> enforced<\/span> disappearances,<\/span> arbitrary<\/span> detention<\/span> and<\/span> violations<\/span> of<\/span> prisoner<\/span> rights<\/span> documented<\/span> by<\/span> the<\/span> United<\/span> Nations<\/span> Office<\/span> for<\/span> Human<\/span> Rights.<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\n<\/span>He<\/span> criticized<\/span> the<\/span> now<\/span> 75-year-old<\/span> Universal<\/span> Declaration<\/span> of<\/span> Human<\/span> Rights<\/span> as<\/span> “misused<\/span> and<\/span> too<\/span> often<\/span> misused.”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\n<\/span>Dozens<\/span> of<\/span> high-ranking<\/span> envoys<\/span> (many<\/span> of<\/span> them<\/span> from<\/span> the<\/span> West)<\/span> who<\/span> attended<\/span> the<\/span> Geneva<\/span> Conference<\/span> attacked<\/span> Russia<\/span> over<\/span> its<\/span> acts<\/span> of<\/span> war.<\/span> President<\/span> Putin<\/span> said<\/span> at<\/span> a<\/span> concurrent<\/span> conference<\/span> on<\/span> disarmament,<\/span> another<\/span> US-backed<\/span> agency,<\/span> that<\/span> delegations<\/span> would<\/span> suspend<\/span> Russia’s<\/span> participation<\/span> in<\/span> the<\/span> New<\/span> START<\/span> Agreement<\/span> with<\/span> the<\/span> US,<\/span> the<\/span> last<\/span> nuclear<\/span> arms<\/span> control<\/span> deal<\/span> between<\/span> Moscow<\/span> and<\/span> Washington.<\/span>\u00a0
\n<\/span>
\n<\/span>Russia<\/span> was<\/span> not<\/span> represented<\/span> on<\/span> the<\/span> council,<\/span> and<\/span> Russia’s<\/span> top<\/span> envoy<\/span> at<\/span> the<\/span> session<\/span> was<\/span> not<\/span> scheduled<\/span> to<\/span> speak<\/span> until<\/span> Thursday.<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\n<\/span>But<\/span> Russian<\/span> officials<\/span> have<\/span> given<\/span> little<\/span> indication<\/span> that<\/span> they<\/span> may<\/span> reconsider<\/span> attacking<\/span> the<\/span> neighboring<\/span> country.<\/span> Kremlin<\/span> spokesman<\/span> Dmitry<\/span> Peskov<\/span> said<\/span> on<\/span> Monday:<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cCurrently,<\/span> I<\/span> see<\/span> no<\/span> conditions<\/span> for<\/span> a<\/span> peaceful<\/span> settlement.\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\n<\/span>Dmitry<\/span> Medvedev,<\/span> deputy<\/span> chairman<\/span> of<\/span> the<\/span> Russian<\/span> Security<\/span> Council,<\/span> chaired<\/span> by<\/span> President<\/span> Vladimir<\/span> Putin,<\/span> has<\/span> gone<\/span> a<\/span> step<\/span> further,<\/span> calling<\/span> the<\/span> specter<\/span> of<\/span> nuclear<\/span> war<\/span> and<\/span> the<\/span> nightmare<\/span> of<\/span> Europe’s<\/span> biggest<\/span> and<\/span> worst<\/span> conflict<\/span> since<\/span> World<\/span> War<\/span> II.<\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span>Zhdanov<\/span> said<\/span> the<\/span> Ukrainian<\/span> army<\/span> is<\/span> now<\/span> building<\/span> up<\/span> forces<\/span> for<\/span> a<\/span> future<\/span> counteroffensive<\/span> in<\/span> the<\/span> south,<\/span> attacking<\/span> Russian<\/span> positions<\/span> and<\/span> supply<\/span> depots.<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cUkraine<\/span> has<\/span> significantly<\/span> stepped<\/span> up<\/span> its<\/span> artillery<\/span> fire<\/span> on<\/span> Russian<\/span> positions<\/span> in<\/span> the<\/span> south,<\/span> destroying<\/span> roads<\/span> and<\/span> depots,<\/span> key<\/span> prerequisites<\/span> for<\/span> a<\/span> successful<\/span> counterattack<\/span> in<\/span> the<\/span> future,\u201d<\/span> he<\/span> said.<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\n<\/span>In<\/span> other<\/span> deployments,<\/span> Russian<\/span> forces<\/span> claimed<\/span> that<\/span> Russian<\/span> forces<\/span> attacked<\/span> an<\/span> electronic<\/span> information<\/span> center<\/span> near<\/span> Brovary,<\/span> east<\/span> of<\/span> Kiev.<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\n<\/span>The<\/span> Russian<\/span> Defense<\/span> Ministry<\/span> also<\/span> said<\/span> Russian<\/span> forces<\/span> had<\/span> attacked<\/span> a<\/span> Ukrainian<\/span> military<\/span> special<\/span> operations<\/span> center<\/span> near<\/span> the<\/span> western<\/span> city<\/span> of<\/span> Khmelnytsky.<\/span> The<\/span> ministry<\/span> did<\/span> not<\/span> disclose<\/span> when<\/span> the<\/span> strike<\/span> began,<\/span> and<\/span> its<\/span> claims<\/span> have<\/span> not<\/span> been<\/span> independently<\/span> verified.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GENEVA (AP) –UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres said in a speech at the UN-backed Human Rights Council in Geneva that the Russian aggression had “caused widespread death, destruction and displacement”. After Russia’s failure to capture Kiev in the first weeks of its February 24 invasion last year and a series of humiliating setbacks in the fall, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":""},"categories":[779,26,276,2480,2482],"tags":[1226,1227,1228,1229,1230,1231,1232,1233,1234,1235,933,1224,1225],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/GEN.webp","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4340,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337\/revisions\/4340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}