Media Initiative and Human Rights and victims of war crimes of Russia testify in Warsaw.
18 вересня 2023
On September, 18 at the Piletskyi Institute on the initiative of the Centre of Documenting of russian crimes in Ukraine named after Rafal Lemkin in Warsaw, there were talks about war crimes, committed during the armed aggression of the russian federation. In particular, about the detention of civilian hostages.
Russian Federation started this practice not in 2022 році but back in 2014, occupying Crimea and seizing the part of Luhansk and Donetsk regions. This was talked about by a former hostage Iryna Dovhan, who spent 5 days in the occupier's custody. The fact that the photo of Iryba tied to a post was published in the New York Times, helped the woman to be freed.
