Ukraine has asked the International Committee of the Red Cross not to open an office in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, saying it would legitimize Moscow’s “humanitarian corridors” and the kidnapping and deportation of Ukrainians.
The ICRC chief said on Thursday after talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that an agreement between the Russian and Ukrainian armies would have to be reached before civilians could normally withdraw from war-torn Ukraine.
Russian media have reported that Red Cross chief Peter Maurer has asked Russia to facilitate the opening of a Red Cross office in Rostov-on-Don.
Mikhail Radutsky, head of the public health committee in the Ukrainian parliament, called on the Red Cross to change its plans.
“The Commission calls on the International Committee of the Red Cross not to legalize ‘humanitarian corridors’ in the territory of the Russian Federation and not to support the abduction of Ukrainians and its forced deportations,” Radutsky said in a statement.
DEES was not immediately available for comment.
Rostov-on-Don is the largest Russian city on the eastern border of Ukraine and the administrative capital of the Rostov region, which has been used by Russia for temporary accommodation for people moving away from the war zone.
Russia said last week it had evacuated hundreds of thousands of people from Ukraine after launching what it calls a “special military operation” to disarm and “de-Nazify” its neighbor.
Ukraine claims that Russia has illegally deported thousands of people since the start of the war, including about 15,000 civilians from the besieged city of Mariupol.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has killed thousands of people, displaced nearly four million, and raised fears of a wider confrontation between Russia and the West.
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