Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi on Thursday evening accused Amnesty International of “attempting to amnesty a terrorist state” to Russia after the NGO accused Kyiv of endangering civilians in its war with Moscow, AFP reports.

Amnesty International “shifts the responsibility from the aggressor to the victim,” he added.

Earlier on the same day, the head of Ukrainian diplomacy, Dmytro Kuleba, said that he was “outraged” by the “unfair” accusations of the public organization.

In a report released on Thursday, Amnesty International said Ukrainian armed forces are putting civilian lives at risk by setting up bases and using weapons in residential areas, including schools and hospitals.

The investigators of the international organization spent several weeks investigating the strikes by Russian troops in the Kharkiv, Donbass and Mykolaiv regions, talking to survivors, eyewitnesses and relatives of the victims of the terrorist attacks.

Amnesty says it has found evidence of shelling by Ukrainians from residential areas, as well as the creation of military bases in civilian buildings in 19 towns and villages in these regions. Satellite imagery has been used to confirm some of these incidents.

Most of the residential areas where Ukrainian soldiers have settled are located kilometers from the front line, and Amnesty researchers say they had alternatives available that would not threaten the lives of civilians, such as military bases, forested areas or other structures located further from residential areas.

“I don’t understand why our Armed Forces fire from the cities and not from the fields,” a woman named Mykola told the investigators.