Amnesty's scandalous statement: how the head of the organization and the Ukrainian side reacted

In turn, Ukraine accused the organization of a selective approach and ignoring the context.

The Ukrainian military endangered the Ukrainian civilian population by establishing bases and using weapons systems in residential areas, including schools and hospitals, as they sought to repel the Russian invasion. Ukraine's tactics violated international humanitarian law as they turned civilian targets into military targets. Russian strikes in populated areas killed civilians and destroyed civilian infrastructure, Amnesty International said in a report.

At the same time, the organization recognizes that we are talking about special cases, but still make big generalizations.

The Amnesty International office in Ukraine immediately reported that they had nothing to do with the report.

Ukrainian officials immediately reacted to the organization's statements.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that Amnesty creates a "false balance between victim and perpetrator".

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, in turn, said that Amnesty is trying to shift responsibility from the aggressor to the victim, thus becoming accomplices of the aggressor.

Later, the head of Amnesty, Agnes Callamard, said that Russian and Ukrainian bots wanting war are behind the wave of criticism of the publication.

Ukrainian and Russian bots and trolls in social networks. Today they all attack investigations. This is called military propaganda, disinformation. This will not affect our impartiality or change the facts,” she wrote.

It is worth noting that Amnesty International is not authorized to conduct official investigations into war crimes, but only fixes individual cases at random.