Updated 10:04 p.m. Moscow Time
UNITED NATIONS, October 24 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Ambassador to UN Vitaly Churkin said Friday that the latest UN report on human rights in Ukraine does not reflect the real situation in the crisis-hit country.
"We heard here references to a new report by the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine. I am sorry to say that this report again cannot be called objective," Churkin said at a meeting of the UN Security Council in New York.
He said it was impossible to ignore the violation of the International Humanitarian Law by the Kiev forces, murder and marauding, as well as racketeering and arbitrary detentions on the part of the Ukrainian government forces and Kiev-controlled battalions Aidar, Azov, Dnipro, Kyiv-1 and Kyiv-2.
The ambassador said that Ukrainian civilian population was kept in "extreme conditions" following "phony accusations" of assisting terrorists. Churkin also mentioned indiscriminate shelling by the Kiev forces that significantly increased the death toll among civilians.
He added that no progress had been made in the investigation into the killings during the Maidan riots, as well as the events in Odessa and Mariupol and urged to hold a thorough investigation into the case of mass graves in Nyzhnya Krynka in the Donetsk Region.
A military confrontation in the southeastern regions of Ukraine began in mid-April, when the Kiev government sent forces to suppress independence supporters eastern Ukraine. The warring sides agreed to a ceasefire on September 5, following the talks in Minsk, however, they have repeatedly accused one another of violating the truce.
According to the UN estimates, the confrontation in eastern Ukraine has claimed the lives of more than 3,700 people, with over 9,000 being injured.
