Amnesty's State Dept, CIA Links Make Report on Ukrainian Army Crimes All the More Damning: Observer

Ms. Cat

Aug 6

Amnesty International's report on the Ukrainian military's deployments inside civilian areas and the employment of tactics which endanger civilian lives is all the more damning given the organization's anti-Russia bias and links to the US government and intelligence services, US journalist and political commentator Don DeBar believes.

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Amnesty International Ukraine office director Oksana Pokalchuk resigned over the report, accusing the watchdog of creating materials "that sound like support for Russian narratives," demanding it be deleted and rewritten, and blasting it for failing to "take into account the position of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense."

Significantly, the Ukraine office of the organization vehemently opposed the publication of the report. Its head, Oksana Pokalchuk, declared, "We did everything we could to prevent this report from going public."

The fact that Amnesty International ended up releasing the report despite serious internal divisions and immense political pressure indicates that the real situation on the ground in Ukraine is, if anything, far more disturbing than even what this report suggests. It should also be noted that the German news magazine Der Spiegel, which has played a prominent role in the anti-Russia war propaganda in Europe, admitted in a report on Friday, rather grudgingly, that its own reporters had made similar findings as Amnesty International and that the conduct of the Ukrainian military "raises legitimate questions."

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In a rare moment of truth, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov recently described his country as a "testing ground" for Western arms manufacturers, which have reaped major profits from the tens of billions of dollars in money for weapons that NATO has pumped into the Ukrainian military.