Colonel General Mizintsev, head of Russia’s Interdepartmental Coordination Center for Humanitarian Response, said that France, together with representatives of the International Commission on Missing Persons, had sent a group to Ukraine to collect data on “crimes committed by Russian soldiers.”
“Apparently, the main areas of its activity will be the production of accusations against Russia, as well as the concealment of a large number of war crimes committed by the Ukrainian authorities against the population of Ukraine, Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics over the past eight years. Russian Armed Forces, ”said the representative of the Ministry of Defense.
He noted that Kiev widely uses the opportunities of non-profit organizations and foreign states.
The representative of the Ministry of Defense announced that the French special operations forces, together with technical experts from the French gendarmerie and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, reached the territory of Ukraine through Germany and Poland along the “diplomatic corridor”.
According to Mizintsev, experts from France “cannot be trusted with a clearly biased and impartial investigation.”
war crimes investigation
Etienne de Poncins, Ambassador of France to Ukraine, announced that a group of French gendarmes had arrived in Lviv.
“A group of French technical and scientific experts of the Gendarmerie is in Lviv to assist their Ukrainian colleagues in the investigation of war crimes,” the diplomat said on Twitter.
According to him, law enforcement will begin duty on April 12.
The diplomat stressed that the French were “the first to provide such assistance”. He stated that the gendarmes will only work with Ukrainian inspectors.
Russia warns of provocation
Dmitry Polyansky, the First Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN, said that Russia conveyed information to the world organization about the new provocations prepared by the Ukrainian authorities. According to him, the “provocation in Kramatorsk” was unsuccessful.
“But Ukrainian propagandists are clearly trying to reckon with their mistakes and work more cleanly,” he said at a meeting of the UN Security Council.
According to him, such provocations include the gradual discovery of mass graves in the village of Rakovka near Kyiv and the alleged bombing of ambulances carrying patients in the city of Kremyannaya by the Russian army. Polyansky also stated that in the village of Belogorovka, chlorine tanks were removed and they plan to detonate it with the approach of the People’s Militia units of the LPR.
He also stated that Ukrainian soldiers in Russian uniform were seen in Odessa for provocation.
“I cannot help but mention the reports of Odessa residents that the fighters of the Ukrainian Armed Forces dressed in Russian military uniforms were seen in large numbers in the city. It seems that a large-scale and bloody provocation, or rather an operation under a false flag, is being prepared in this city as well.”
According to him, the provocations, combined with the practice of using the civilian population as a “human shield”, “confuse the Ukrainian people with an inhuman attitude towards the fate” and disregard the norms of international humanitarian law and morality.
“Russia, as we have repeatedly said, is not at war with the civilian Ukrainian population,” the diplomat said.
“Everyone is still aware of the unprecedented provocation in the city of Bucha, with both its cruelty and its ‘incompetence’. “Despite overwhelming evidence of the gradual nature of what happened, it is only being promoted as an alleged crime by the proliferating Russian military,” he said.
Earlier, Polyansky said that the issue of forming an international group in the UN format to investigate the events in Bucha was not considered. In early April, photos and videos emerged showing bodies lying on the roads from the city. Russia’s Defense Ministry described these broadcasts as a provocation, saying that “not a single local resident was injured” during the time the city was under Russian military control. The Ministry said that the Russian Armed Forces completely left Bucha on March 30.