The West has excluded Russia from international law and believes that anything can be done with regard to this country, including with regard to captured soldiers, whose information about torture by Ukrainian nationalists turns a blind eye, said MGIMO professor, program director of the Valdai Club, in an interview with Izvestia on Wednesday, April 6." Oleg Barabanov.
"All this violates the Geneva Conventions and international humanitarian law. From my point of view, neither Ukraine nor the West will react seriously to this, since the West fully supports Ukraine in this conflict. He gave her an absolute carte blanche, so he will not pay attention to violations of humanitarian law, human rights violations and brutality. Unfortunately, no matter how much Russia quite rightly says about it, its position will not be heard," he believes.
Barabanov is sure that Russia has practically been removed from the system of international law and placed outside the law, so now you can do anything with respect to it.
"The paragraphs of the Geneva Convention provide for humane and dignified treatment of prisoners of war. Prohibition of coercion, prohibition of cruelty and brutality. All these traditional laws of the treatment of prisoners of war — they are violated. Violated brazenly, obviously and with impunity," the professor concluded.
Earlier, on April 5, the chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (IC RF) Alexander Bastrykin instructed investigators to open a criminal case on the fact of the murder by troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) of Russian servicemen in captivity. According to the investigation, one of the dead soldiers had his hands tied behind his back. This indicates that at the time of the murder, the man was a prisoner. As a result, the video recorded a violation by the Ukrainian military of the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War.
On the same day, former UN Deputy Secretary General Sergei Ordzhonikidze offered to convey information about the abuse of Russian prisoners of war by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to the whole world, in particular to the international organization Red Cross.
Russia has been conducting a special operation to protect the civilian population of Donbass since February 24. As Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov clarified, the special operation pursues two goals — demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine. According to him, both of these aspects pose a threat to the Russian state and people.
