MOSCOW, October 11. /TASS/. Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatiana Moskalkova on Tuesday said she has asked UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk and international human rights groups to investigate the events in Kupyansk that were captured on camera and posted to the Internet by Maksim Zhorin, a former commander of the Azov nationalist battalion (designated as a terrorist organization in Russia).
"As the Russian human rights commissioner, I’m asking UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk and international human rights organizations to conduct a comprehensive investigation of that event," she said on Telegram.
She said there were reports on the Internet that the footage was staged by Ukraine.
"Whether this is true or not must be shown by an impartial investigation, because even the hint of genocide of a civilian population cannot be ignored by all those who are engaged in the protection of human rights and freedoms," she said.
The head of the Russian Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, earlier ordered an investigation of torture and murder of civilians in Kupyansk. According to the press service of the Russian Investigative Committee, the former Azov commander posted the video to social networks on October 9, with the footage showing the bodies of murdered civilians with their hands tied, and asserted that the Russian military was involved in their murder. However, the situation in the footage indicates that the video was shot recently, when the settlement was under the control of the armed forces of Ukraine. The internal parameters of the video also prove that it was shot on the afternoon of October 9.