Ukrainian ambassador accuses Russia of using winter cold “as a weapon of mass destruction”

Russia seeks to use the winter cold as “weapon of mass destruction” against UkraineUkrainian ambassador Eugenia Filipenko assured the UN Human Rights Council today, who also pointed out that 97% of the missiles launched by Russian forces have targeted civilian buildings.

“In revenge for its military losses on the ground, Russia has begun using cold as a weapon of mass destruction, deliberately attacking Ukrainian energy infrastructure,” assured the head of the Ukrainian mission before the UN in Geneva at a special Council debate on the situation in your country.

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Filipenko He also recalled that the Russian invasion has exacerbated a global food crisis affecting Africa, the Middle East, Asia and other regions, and that he compared it to the famines that the Stalinist regime caused against the Ukrainian population during the Soviet era.

”90 years ago the Ukrainians suffered a famine caused by Stalin, the Holodomor, which killed four million innocent people, and as we remember and call for this crime to be internationally recognized as genocide, We say that we will not allow this tragedy to happen to other nations.” he claimed.

Filipenko stressed that thousands of Ukrainian prisoners of war are subjected to “inhumane” treatment by Russia, with complaints of torture, lack of food and health care, while three million people, including 12,000 children, have been forcibly taken from Ukraine to Russia.

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In the Council debate, where the High Commissioner for UN for human rights Volker Turk presented a report that points to possible war crimes perpetrated by Russia in Ukraine, the ambassador asked the international community to support the creation of a special court to judge these facts.

“We urge all states to support this court to try the aggression against Ukraine, in order to hold Russia’s political and military leaders to account,” he claimed.

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After the intervention of the high commissioner and the Ukrainian ambassador, numerous delegations, especially European ones, condemned the “atrocities” detailed in the Türk report, which according to the Slovak representative “reminiscent of the account of a Nazi SS officer on the Eastern Front.”

Source: Elcomercio

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