On Sunday, Amnesty International apologized for the “confusion and anger” caused by a report in which Ukraine is accused of threatening civilians,\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate . 7. August . 2022 | World News .\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n On Thursday, the human rights group\u00a0published a report\u00a0saying that the presence of Ukrainian troops in residential areas increases the risk to civilians during a Russian invasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Quote<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n “Amnesty International deeply regrets the alarm and anger caused by our press release about the tactics of the Ukrainian military,” said an email to Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Amnesty International’s priority in this and any other conflict is to ensure the protection of civilians. Indeed, this was the sole purpose of releasing this latest study. While we fully support our findings, we regret the pain caused.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Details<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In an email on Sunday, Amnesty said it found Ukrainian forces near civilian homes in 19 towns and villages it visited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “This does not mean that Amnesty International holds Ukrainian forces responsible for violations committed by Russian forces, or that the Ukrainian military is not taking adequate precautions in other parts of the country,” the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “We have to be very clear: nothing that we have documented in any way justifies violations by Russia.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let’s add<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n President Zelensky\u00a0criticized the group\u00a0for trying to remove responsibility for Russian aggression, and the head of Amnesty International in Ukraine, Oksana Pokalchuk ,\u00a0resigned\u00a0, saying the report was a propaganda “gift” for Moscow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Source<\/strong>:\u00a0Ukrgate<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Sunday, Amnesty International apologized for the “confusion and anger” caused by a report in which Ukraine is accused of threatening civilians,\u00a0 KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate . 7. August . 2022 | World News .\u00a0 On Thursday, the human rights group\u00a0published a report\u00a0saying that the presence of Ukrainian troops in residential areas increases the risk to civilians during […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":44191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10474],"tags":[12213,7975,11323,813,996,2399,1000,1064,1854],"class_list":["post-44189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world-news","tag-amnesty","tag-report","tag-reuters","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-gate","tag-ukraine-news","tag-war","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44200,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44189\/revisions\/44200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}