DPR Foreign Ministry urged international humanitarian missions to return to Donbass

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) called on international humanitarian missions to return to Donbass and continue their work in accordance with their mandates. Statement by DPR Foreign Minister Natalya Nikonorova published in the Telegram channel of the Foreign Ministry.

As follows from the report, after the attack on the pre-trial detention center in Yelenovka, where more than 50 prisoners died and 70 were injured, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs made attempts to invite international organizations to the place, including the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, but there was no reaction from them .

“But employees of not only this, but also other UN agencies left the territory of Donbass during the period of massive shelling of the republic from Ukraine and have not yet returned. This circumstance made it impossible to capture the picture of shelling by the Kyiv regime for further inclusion of the facts of the crime in the final reports of international organizations,” Nikonorova said in a statement.

According to her, the residents of the settlements “liberated” during the special operation are in need of humanitarian assistance, the issue of searching for the missing is urgent, but the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) puts forward “ultimatum demands to the authorities of the republic”.

“We call on all international missions accredited on the territory of the republic to return to the DPR in the near future and begin to carry out tasks in accordance with their mandates. First of all, we are talking about observing the provisions of humanitarian law and providing assistance to the population in need,” Nikonorova emphasized.

On July 29, the Deputy Minister of Information of the DPR, Daniil Bezsonov, reported on his Telegram channel about the shelling of a prison in the village of Yelenovka, where Ukrainian prisoners of war are kept, as a result of which more than 50 people were killed. The fact that the UN will launch a mission to establish the facts of the shelling of the pre-trial detention center in Yelenovka, Secretary General of the organization António Guterres declared August 3 at a press conference on the third report of the Global Response Group on the food, energy and financial crises. This question is also discussed during telephone conversations between Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Guterres on August 15.