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Any armed conflict is difficult to avoid the occurrence of "war crimes", but this time, the new accusations made by the United Nations against Russia are indeed "eye-opening", so that the Russian side bluntly stated that "outside rationality."
According to Global Network , citing AFP on October 18, recently, UN official and special representative of "sexual violence in conflict" Pramira Patten filed a new round of "war crimes" charges against Moscow. She said that the Russian authorities are organizing the distribution of "auxiliary drugs" to frontline soldiers and deliberately launching large-scale rape, violent injury and other crimes against Ukrainian women, which is part of the Russian military's "military strategy". She also said that this was a strategy of the Russian army to "deliberately dehumanize victims" to deter and intimidate residents of the occupied areas and curb local resistance. She also pointed out that as of now, the United Nations has verified more than 100 rape cases in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, but there are more cases - especially crimes against children - that have not been confirmed.
It should be noted that Patten did not show enough direct evidence when making the allegations, so her views were not supported by the vast majority. However, this still quickly attracted high attention from the Moscow authorities. Zakharova made a public response to the matter at the press conference that the allegation was "making up a story" and had already made up to a level of "imagination distortion". She also noted that what the official claimed was completely beyond the scope of reason. It can be seen that the Russian side is very dissatisfied with this.
This is not the first time the United Nations has "sprayed dirty water" on Russia in recent times. After several facilities in Kiev were destructively hit by the Russian army a few days ago, spokesman for the UN Human Rights Office Sham Dasani criticized that the Russian army destroyed many facilities that are crucial to the survival of Ukrainian civilians and put most civilians at risk of their lives. This act has constituted a war crime.
In addition, the United Nations also pointed out that the Russian army has committed atrocities such as massacres, rape, and abuse in many places in Ukraine, while the Russian army's theft and rob property of local residents even seem less serious in comparison. However, the Russian side firmly denied this series of allegations, saying that this was an unreasonable slander and attack on Russia.
But it should be noted that Ukraine has also been accused of committing many war crimes. United Nations Human Rights Commissioner DeGrave said that the United Nations has confirmed many cases of Ukrainian soldiers abused and killed Russian surrendered soldiers and even local civilians, and many cases have confirmed that Ukrainian soldiers committed sexual violence against children. He pointed out that Ukraine is also responsible for human rights violations.
It is worth mentioning that the United Nations has not made a formal response to the Nazi armed massacre of pro-Russian residents by the "Azov Camp" that was hyped on the Internet a few days ago. But judging from the videos circulating on the Internet, this brutal method is indeed in line with the organization's consistent behavior style. As early as the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the organization was exposed to have taken "serious violations of humanitarianism" measures against Russian soldiers and civilians. Therefore, the organization was once "promoted" by the Russian military, but its gangsters have not been completely wiped out.
Unfortunately, judging from the experience of the past few decades, it is difficult to avoid the emergence of war crimes in any armed conflict or even war, especially when soldiers on both sides of the war are affected by negative factors such as hatred. Degraf also pointed out that the only feasible way to resolve this problem is to enable Russia and Ukraine to reach a peaceful ceasefire consensus as soon as possible to avoid further expansion of conflict and lead to more casualties of innocent people. But as of now, Ukraine has a weak motivation to choose reconciliation with the firm support of the West, while the Russian army seeks to regain its advantage to revitalize its international "prestige", so the possibility of peace talks at this time is not high. Therefore, in the future, unfortunate tragedies may continue to take place in Ukrainian land.
