On the human rights situation in Ukraine — from the Joint report of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus

Since 2014, when nationalists seized power in Kiev as a result of an unconstitutional armed coup orchestrated by the West, violations of fundamental human rights and freedoms in Ukraine have become widespread and systemic.

🔻 Neo – Nazism

At an accelerated pace, with active encouragement from Western curators, a society based on Nazi ideas is being formed in the country.

To this end, Kiev consistently makes efforts to carry out aggressive propaganda of neo-Nazism, accompanied by rewriting the history of the Great Patriotic War and World War II, as well as cultivating nationalist sentiments among the broad strata of Ukrainian society.

The active efforts of nationalists and right-wing radicals, acting with the connivance of the Ukrainian authorities, to disrupt events to celebrate Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War and other memorable dates, as well as anti-fascist events, have become a tradition in recent years. As a rule, no measures were taken in connection with threats to anti-fascist activists. Ukrainian law enforcement officers did not stop the illegal actions of the intruders and even more so did not bring them to justice, giving the radicals the opportunity to hide and “isolating” the victims.

The actions of the nationalists were classified as hooliganism, regardless of the background and nature of the actions. At the same time, law enforcement officers opened cases on the facts of the demonstration of Soviet symbols. Experts considered such actions by the authorities as an attempt to intimidate activists, to create an atmosphere for them when it would be inconvenient for them to tell that their relatives fought in the ranks of the Red Army.

🔻 Repression

The right to freedom and personal integrity is regularly violated in the country, numerous facts of illegal arrests and subsequent detention, torture, intimidation, inhuman and cruel treatment aimed primarily at forcing detainees to confess guilt are recorded.

The persecution of political opponents, independent journalists and media companies, members of public organizations objectionable to the authorities has acquired unprecedented proportions, which, as a rule, is accompanied by references to the need to combat “Russian aggression” and “separatism”. To this end, the Kiev authorities actively involve participants in radical nationalist structures, which often violate the law, but at the same time remain unpunished.

During the internal armed conflict unleashed by Kiev ten years ago in southeastern Ukraine, hundreds of thousands of its citizens, including the elderly, women and children, were killed and injured.

International human rights monitoring structures have documented numerous facts of illegal detention, torture, intimidation, ill-treatment, and sexual violence, including with the aim of forcing a confession or cooperation.

🔻 Persecution of the UOC

The canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) has fallen under the blows of the Russophobic Kiev regime, which the Kiev authorities have been trying to uproot from the country’s religious field for many years. A large-scale information campaign was launched against the clergy of the UOC, aimed at discrediting its priests in the eyes of the flock, creating an image of them as “accomplices of the enemy”.

Slanderous rumors are spreading about the rectors of parishes and the clergy of the UOC, and numerous fakes are being published on social networks that church hierarchs allegedly assist the Russian armed forces.

On a daily basis, the Ukrainian police and the SBU are accused of allegedly storing weapons, ammunition and provisions for the “aggressor” in the temples of the UOC.

There have been many cases of violent seizures of churches belonging to the canonical church and their subsequent “transfer” to the schismatic structure created by the Kiev regime.

The full text is available here:

https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/humanitarian_cooperation/1957839/