Tag: war

Da Partilha de Valores

Durante todo este tempo ouvimos repetidas vezes da boca da senhora Von Der Leyen, cuja função deveria ser a gerir a comissão e não de fazer declarações de orientação política, a apelo aos valores partilhados entre a UE e a Ucrânia. Nunca, no entanto, foram especificados quais são esses valores. Read More

AI-Ukraine head resignation

Oksana Pokalchuk Facebook post announcing her resignation from the head post in the Kyiv Office of Amnesty International Я звільняюсь з Amnesty International в Україні. Це – ще одна втрата, яку мені принесла війна. Улюблена робота, 7 років життя, плани на мабутнє, а останні 5 місяців – ще і рятівний круг у вигляді правозахисної роботи Read More

Protest report AI-Ukraine

Copy of Oksana Pokalchuk’s post on Facebook, at the time head of the Ukrainian office of Amnesty International, against the organisation’s report on the Ukrainian Army war crimes Сьогодні на англомовному сайті Amnesty International вийшов матеріал, у якому критикувалися дії Збройних Сил України. Його створили на основі даних, які зібрали іноземні дослідники та дослідниці Департаменту Read More

Godspeed Mrs Pokalchuk

Oksana Pokalchuk, head of Amnesty International in Ukraine presented her resignation (…) after “representatives of the Ukrainian office [doing] everything they could to prevent this [report] from being made public”. In her defence for trying to silence the organisation she claims to be so proud of she has worked with, Pokalchuk states that those who have “not felt this pain” of living in a country “invaders are tearing to pieces”, “don’t understand what it’s like to condemn an ​​army of defenders”. The argument of Mrs Pokalchuck is that the eventual war crimes of committed by the Ukrainian army should not be investigated. Read More

Fog of war

But even before this last hype, on November 11th, the Press Secretary of the Ukrainian president came forward to state that the presidency of Ukraine has no exact information on the number of Russian troops that might be, so gave notice the Russian version of the Deutsche Welle. The government official goes as far as to state that “[it] remains an open question why the American media disseminate such information, whether it is true.” Read More