MOSCOW. June 14 (Interfax) - Moscow believes that a number of provisions of the latest report by the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine are politically biased, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
"We have to point out at the same time that part of the report is politically biased in nature. A number of sections of this document represent an attempt to cover for the authorities in Kyiv and blur over the crimes they have committed against their own people," the ministry said in a commentary available on its official website.
"We would like also to point out that the Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol are Russian territory, and the attempt to include the assessment of the human rights situation in this Russian region into the UN report on Ukraine is untenable," it said.
At the same time, Moscow is "deeply concerned about the dramatic deterioration of the situation in Donbas," the Foreign Ministry said.
"We support the monitoring mission members' call on the parties to the conflict to strictly abide by the ceasefire agreement. We share the UN monitors' concern about the unending shelling of civilian infrastructure facilities, particularly water and power supply systems, schools, and hospitals, which is at odds with Kyiv's international obligations on protecting civilians," it said.
"Extremely worrisome is the monitoring mission's information on new instances of unlawful or arbitrary deprivation of freedom, violent disappearances, and systematic use of torture by the SBU [the Ukrainian Security Service] to obtain confessions from people detained on suspicion of involvement in the conflict in Donbas," it said.