Amnesty International said on Friday that it fully supports this report with accusations of the Ukrainian military that he had endangered the civilian population in his resistance to the Russian invasion by installing military infrastructure in populated areas, a report strongly rejected by Kyiv, according to AFP.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi, in response to the publication of the report on Thursday, accused Amnesty International of “attempting to amnesty a terrorist state” to Russia.

“We fully stand by our findings,” the NGO’s secretary-general, Agnes Callamar, told AFP by email.

She emphasized that these findings “are based on evidence obtained during extensive investigations, which are subject to the same rigorous standards and vetting processes as all Amnesty International’s work.

He deplored the reaction of the Ukrainian authorities “which risks paralyzing a legitimate and important discussion of these issues” regarding the protection of civilians, noting that the government did not respond to a request for reaction or comment to the publication of the report.

The NGO “stated that the Ukrainian military actions” described in its report, including the installation of military infrastructure in schools and hospitals, “do not justify Russia’s systematic violations of international humanitarian law,” Callamard said.

“Ignoring violations committed by one privileged party at the expense of another would not be a way to be accountable for human rights,” she argued.

In his daily video statement on Thursday evening, Zelensky said the report puts “the victim and the criminal on equal footing.”

And the head of Ukrainian diplomacy, Dmytro Kuleba, said that he was “outraged” by the “unfair” accusations of the NGO.

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