14/03/2022 14:32

Rashist occupiers kidnap civilians in the temporarily occupied territories

In the Zaporizhia region in the city of Dniprorudny yesterday morning, the mayor Yevhen Matveev was abducted, in Melitopol - in addition to the mayor Ivan Fedorov, also a public activist Olga Gaisumova.

In the Donetsk region, in the apartment of priest Oleg Nikolaev from occupied Berdyansk, armed with machine guns, the russian military conducted a search, arrested him and taken away in an unknown direction.

Russian militants forcibly took Ukrainian flags from peaceful protesters in the city of Melitopol, and some people were taken away in an unknown direction.

Cases of abduction of civilians in the Kyiv region are recorded every day.

The kidneping of civilian hostages is a direct violation of Articles 3 and 34 of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, Article 9 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

I appeal to the international community to take into account the terrorist activities of the aggressor state's troops in determining the limits of sanctions pressure on Russia.