The Russian Federation is bound by international law, and obliged to ensure the protection of human rights on the peninsula, the EU recalls.
The European Union says Russia has launched a conscription campaign in the occupied Crimea and that the move broke international law.
“Today, the Russian Federation has launched yet another conscription campaign in the illegally-annexed Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol to draft residents of the peninsula in the Russian Federation Armed Forces,” the EU said in a statement Thursday, April 1, as per Reuters.
“This is another violation of international humanitarian law,” the EU said. “The Russian Federation is bound by international law, and obliged to ensure the protection of human rights on the peninsula.”
Background
- At least 28,044 Crimean residents have been called up for “service” with the Russian army since the beginning of the occupation.
- At least 6,300 men were drafted in 2020.
- Last year alone, Russia opened 81 criminal cases targeting local Crimean residents evading conscription.
- At the same time, 35 such cases were opened in 2019, 38 in 2018, nine in 2017, and none in 2016 and 2015.
Read more on UNIAN: https://www.unian.info/politics/occupied-crimea-eu-accuses-russia-of-drafting-conscripts-from-annexed-peninsula-11374333.html
Young boys that were still losing their baby teeth when the little Green Men invaded are now old enough to be forced into Vladolf’s fascist mafia. What laws? Zakharova will probably say the boys were begging to carry guns and kill those that gave them a good life back when they were young and losing their baby teeth…
“This is another violation of international humanitarian law,” the EU said. “The Russian Federation is bound by international law, and obliged to ensure the protection of human rights on the peninsula.”
What are the EU going to do about it, nothing as usual?
They obviously forget that Putin’s whims overrule international laws and human rights.
Then they remember those rubles deposited in their bank accounts.
Like you always say, rubles make you blind.
They also make you come out with comments like internal conflict, we need dialogue with Russia and we need Russia to stabilize the situation in Donbas.
Europe has once again proven beyond any doubt that it has an unlimited supply of hot air. I’m sure that the jellyfish know a lot more about human rights violations by mafia land than even we do and yet offer absolutely zero consequences for the crime syndicate.