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  • Missile strike shakes Kramatorsk as Putin’s men attack a pizza restaurant

    Missile strike shakes Kramatorsk as Putin’s men attack a pizza restaurant

    The Kremlin has denied claims made by the UN that it violated children’s rights in Ukraine, claiming that instead its armed forces were rescuing youngsters from dangerous situations.

    According to a significant study published on Tuesday, since the battle started in February of last year, Russia has been accused of imprisoning more than 800 civilians, including some children, and 77 civilians have been put to death.

    According to the research, 480 attacks on schools and hospitals and 518 kid maimings were committed by Russian armed forces in 2022.

    It also accused them of using 91 children as human shields.

    Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a regular briefing that Moscow ‘firmly rejects’ such accusations.

    ‘Our military, repeatedly risking their own lives, took measures to save children, to take them out from under shelling, which, by the way, was carried out by the armed forces of Ukraine against civilian infrastructure,’ he said.

    Russia regularly rejects accusations of human rights abuses in Ukraine and also denies deliberately targeting civilians in what it calls a ‘special military operation’.

    Tuesday’s 36-page U.N. report, based on 70 visits to detention centres and more than 1,000 interviews, also said that Ukraine had violated international law by arbitrarily detaining civilians, but on a considerably smaller scale.

  • Putin “delivers” female prisoners to war zones

    Putin “delivers” female prisoners to war zones

    As per reports, Russia is getting ready to send female inmates to the front lines for the first time.

    According to the general staff of the Ukrainian armed forces, Vladimir Putin has looked for “other sources of replenishment of manpower” because of the war’s severe casualties.

    “This week, a train with designated seats for carrying detainees moved into the Donetsk region.
    According to a statement, one of the carriages was for prisoner women.

    Earlier this week, there were reports the Kremlin had moved female convicts to Kuschevka in Krasnodar region, close to the war zone.

    Now Putin sends female prisoners to his war against Ukraine, say sources. Female prisoners GV pic
    Female convicts have been moved to near the front line, Ukraine claims.

    Here some female prisoners – released under a special scheme linked to the war effort – were put to work as farm labourers in field as well as ‘greenhouses and cowsheds’, possibly deployed in supplying the military.

    Olga Romanova, of Russian Behind Bars Foundation, believes around 100 women were sent to Ukraine.

    Male prisoners have been recruited in Russia in their tens of thousands and offered a deal which reduces their sentences if they serve – and stay alive – for six months at the frontline.

    Many have been serving with the Wagner private army.

    Olga Romanova, human rights activist, head of Russia Behind Bars Foundation
    Olga Romanova, human rights activist and head of Russia Behind Bars Foundation.

    Last month the Ukrainian general staff said that Russia was actively ‘trying to recruit convicted women to participate in the hostilities’.

    This was to ‘compensate for losses in personnel’, they said.

    Some had been recruited from a women’s penal colony in Snezhnoye, in occupied Donetsk region.

    Even before the war broke out, and amid long-term personnel shortages in the Russian Armed Forces, the Kremlin has made little efforts to enlist women.

    The ???first Russian servicewoman to be killed??? in the war in Ukraine, Corporal Anastasia Savitskaya, 35.
    Russian corporal Anastasia Savitskaya, 35, died in July 2022.

    Although throughout the 2010s many women sought to join the armed forces, they were not permitted in frontline combat roles, barred from holding ranks higher than colonel and denied jobs such as ;driver, mechanic, sniper or gunner.’

    Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu stated in May 2020 that c. 41,000 women were enlisted in the Russian Armed Forces.

    According to a 2020 poll conducted by the state-run Russian Public Opinion Research Centre, 63% of Russians said they didn’t want a daughter of theirs to join the military with 42% saying ‘the army is not a woman’s business, the army is for men’.

    On 12 July 2022, Russian media reported the first death of Russian female soldier in the country’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

    The soldier was Anastasia Savitskaya, a corporal from Volgograd.