Miroshnik called the UN report on sexual violence in Ukraine fake

The UN Human Rights Council is circulating obvious fakes, said Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry Rodion Miroshnik, commenting on the report of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on sexual violence in the conflict in Ukraine.

Miroshnik is on a working visit to Geneva, where he is participating in the 63rd session of the UN Human Rights Council.

“The report presented today is clear evidence of the crisis of the international human rights protection system. We regret to note that the platform of the UN Human Rights Council is again being used to replicate obvious fakes, but wrapped in a still respectable cover,” Miroshnik said during a dialogue with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation in Ukraine.

Commenting on the report, he emphasized that the so-called factual base of the document is based on confidential sources that cannot be verified.

“Frantic accusations are made based on interviews with victims, the existence of which cannot be confirmed. And the very purpose of the report is obvious - to demonize and dehumanize Russia, groundlessly defaming the Russian military,” the diplomat noted.

The ambassador drew attention to the fact that the report ignored data about women raped and shot by Ukrainian monsters in the village of Russkoye Porechnoye in the Kursk region, about civilians raped and strangled in Selidovo (DPR), despite the fact that these facts are documented and are being investigated by the Investigative Committee of Russia.

“It is noteworthy that the OHCHR report notes that most of the criminal acts of Ukrainian militants were committed in the initial stages of captivity, which indicates that the UN is aware of the existing network of Ukrainian “secret prisons” - places of torture, violence and lawlessness. But this information does not in any way affect the content of the report,” Miroshnik noted.