MOSCOW, April 4. /TASS/. The Kiev regime has taken advantage of the onset of the special military operation and the good graces of the UN Human Rights Council in order to proclaim itself free of any obligations in the sphere of humanitarian law, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said during a meeting with foreign ambassadors on the settlement in Ukraine.
"In February 2022, when the special military operation was launched, the Kiev regime pronounced itself free from practically all obligations in the sphere of human rights and the special procedures of the UN Human Rights Council pandered to it," the top Russian diplomat noted. In relation to this, he reiterated that last year, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Alice Jill Edwards stated that the situation with torture in Ukraine was not a cause for concern while the efforts of local authorities in that sphere were sufficient.
"Yet already then the entire world saw numerous videos of atrocities by Ukrainian troops, where, essentially, in real time, Ukrainian Nazis dressed in Ukrainian armed forces fatigues were executing captured Russian soldiers with their hands and feet tied and their heads bagged," Lavrov added. "This is a real fact known to the entire world but nobody is going to demand from Ukraine to investigate this crime," he said.
According to the Russian foreign minister, as opposed to Russia, no one in the West is going to call for an unbiased open investigation into the crime in Bucha "where a staged production took place accusing Russia of slaughtering civilians." "Nobody thinks of any investigation anymore," Lavrov stated. "Repeatedly, we and myself personally, at sessions of the UN Security Council urged to get from the Kiev regime at least the names of those people whose bodies were purportedly displayed in Bucha, I addressed the UN secretary general directly in order for him to use his clout and get such a list from the Kiev regime and their handlers. Nobody is doing anything," he concluded.