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For: EFE Updated 11 May 2022, 11: 17 am EDT
The Ukrainian Ombudsman, Liudmyla Denisova, asked the UN and the Red Cross for their help in evacuating the wounded soldiers resisting the Russian military siege at the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol.
“I call on the UN and the Red Cross to take all measures in accordance with their mandates to evacuate wounded soldiers from Azovstal to safe regions of Ukraine, where they will be provided with proper medical care and care,” Denisova said in her account. Telegram.
As he explained, “ with open wounds, without the necessary medication, in unsanitary and inhumane conditions the defenders of Mariupol, soldiers of the Azov National Guard, are wounded and mutilated”.
He stressed that the Ukrainian soldiers of the city d coastal “are making inhuman efforts every minute to defend the last outpost and they did not hesitate to sacrifice themselves to save Ukraine
and the world. Now the world must save them”, he assured.
And he recalled that, “according to the article 16 of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, the Sick and wounded enjoy special protection and respect“.
In addition, article 3 of the Convention on the Relief of the Wounded and Sick in the Armed Forces obliges the parties to treat them humanely in all circumstances, Denisova stressed.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine caused one of the greatest humanitarian catastrophes in Mariupol. The city on the shore of the Sea of Azov was left without power, water and gas supplies.
According to its mayor, Vadym Boichenko, until 20.000 could have died in the city since the beginning of the Russian invasion, the past 24 February.
More of 100.000 civilians are still trapped in the city, while the Russians, who occupy virtually the entire city, are taking Ukrainian passports from residents and forcibly deporting them to Russia and the occupied Donetsk and Lugansk regions, according to Ukrainian authorities. EFE
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