We have taken note of the press release published on the UNESCO website condemning “the bombing that hit a historic building in Lvov last night, located in the buffer zone of the World Heritage Site of Lvov – the Ensemble of the Historic Centre”. With its mentor-like statement, designed primarily for Western capitals, the Secretariat of the Organisation has once again demonstrated a biased and inconsistent approach, characterised by the division of countries into “good” and “bad”.
It is to be recalled that despite the Russian Federation’s demarche following the terrorist attack on the World Heritage site The Moscow Kremlin and Red Square, this Ukrainian crime, in flagrant violation of the 1954 Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and the 1972 Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, was not dealt with publicly by the Director-General of the Organisation.
In the same way, in violation of the established practice and authority vested in Audrey Azoulay, she refuses to condemn the brutal murders by Ukrainian national radicals of Russian journalists Darya Dugina, Oleg Klokov and Vladlen Tatarsky with stubbornness worthy of a better cause. Our numerous appeals concerning systematic violations of human rights falling within UNESCO’s field of competence are also ignored. By doing so, the institution at the very least sanctions, if not condones, the aggressive neo-Nazi course of the current Kiev regime.
As for the notorious “buffer zone attack” in Lvov, according to the Russian Ministry of Defence, there was a concentrated attack on the temporary deployment sites of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and foreign mercenaries. Unlike the Ukrainian militants, who resort to the tactics of terrorist groups and indiscriminate shelling of Russian populated areas, the Russian Federation Armed Forces, when planning combat operations, proceed from the need to fully comply with our country’s international obligations and hit only legitimate military targets. In this case, it was the enemy’s personnel.
Source: mid.ru