Friday, October 21, 2022

Russian human rights officials ask world to react to Ukraine’s deadly attack on ferry

Russia’s Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova said on Friday she has turned to a number of international organizations in regard to the Ukrainian military’s deadly shelling of a ferry crossing the Dnieper River in Kherson.

"This is another tragedy resulting in the deaths of civilians and journalists," Moskalkova wrote on her Telegram channel. "On the morning of October 21, the Ukrainian army attacked a civilian ferry near the Antonovka Bridge in Kherson. Several people were killed and many more sustained wounds."

According to her, "it was an unprecedented and egregious crime against humanity" directly aimed at slaughtering civilians.

"I have turned to international bodies and human rights protection organizations because it is high time to put an end to this lawlessness," she added.

Meanwhile, Valery Fadeyev, head of the Russian Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights, said he already submitted inquiries to the United Nations, the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) and the Council of Europe urging them to react to the assault on the ferry in the Kherson Region.

"Today, I submitted inquiries with the UN, the OSCE, the Council of Europe and Amnesty International requesting a prompt reaction to this blatant war crime on behalf of Kiev," he stated. "For decades, Western institutions have been persistently teaching us how to respect human rights."

"And what have these ‘teachers’ turned out to be? The dismissal of Kiev’s war crimes boldly speaks to the vested interest of the leading international structures, which were originally designed to protect and promote human rights," he added.

The Ukrainian military delivered 12 rocket strikes on the civilian river crossing in Kherson in the late evening of October 20, with 11 rockets shot down by Russian air defenses and one rocket falling in the area of the Antonovka Bridge. Four civilians were killed and ten others were wounded as a result of the Ukrainian army’s bombardments.

Yekaterina Gubareva, Kherson Region deputy governor, said earlier on Friday that Two staff members of the Kherson-based Tavria TV company were killed in the Ukrainian army’s shelling of a ferry across the Dnieper River in Kherson.

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