MOSCOW. Oct 9 (Interfax) - A Russian Foreign Ministry official has said that the conclusions contained in a United Nations report on the human rights situation in Ukraine were 'biased" and "politicized."
"Unfortunately, we still see no objective approach and no unbiased assessments from the authors of this document. The authors continue using information selectively and then, based on this information, making fairly biased conclusions," ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said at a briefing in Moscow on Thursday.
At the same time, a number of assessments expressed in the report reflect the alarming situation around human rights in Ukraine, primarily "the evidence of massive breach of the international humanitarian law and human rights by the Ukrainian army and numerous mercenary battalions such as Aidar, Azov, Dnepr," the spokesman said.
Trust in some of the conclusions in the report is also being undermined against the backdrop of the claims made by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) about the nature of the conflict in Ukraine, Lukashevich said.
"The ICRC has already characterized the events in Ukraine as a non-international armed conflict. And the attempts by the mission of the Office of the (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights to give its own vision of this situation and challenge the already obvious facts, in our view, further undermine trust in the conclusions made in the report," the spokesperson said.
The report recognizes that the humanitarian situation in southeastern Ukraine is getting worse, he said.
"Nevertheless, it spells out that the humanitarian aid being provided by Russia to Donetsk and Luhans is something quite negative, i.e. a conclusion is made similar to what is being channeled by the Western propaganda," Lukashevich said.