Courts over "Azov" is an attempt to lift responsibility for the war from Putin - the United States

According to representatives of the State Department, all captives of the Armed Forces, including foreign volunteers, are subject to prisoners of war. Mayor Mariupol Advisor Petro Andryushchenko explained that the start of these courts is not called, perhaps because there are no confessions of Ukrainians.

The day before, US State Department said that the Kremlin plans to use courts of Ukrainian prisoners of war as an attempt to lift responsibility for the war from President Putin and to distract from numerous evidence of the atrocities of the Russian forces that took place in Ukraine. About it reports CNN. The US condemned illegal planned demonstration courts and called them mockery of justice.

"All representatives of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including local and foreign volunteers, are subject to prisoners of war. They deserve to appeal and defense in accordance with this status provided for by the Geneva Convention," the State Department said. According to the mayor of Mariupol Petr Andryushchenko, the date of the beginning of these courts or even the time period is not called.

He suggested that this was due to the fact that the Russians did not receive written confessions of the guilt of Ukrainian prisoners of war. Mariupol Mayor Vadim Boychenko stated that the Russian Federation has launched a war and is responsible for the Mariupol tragedy. "Every selected life and every destroyed building is all the crimes of the occupiers.

Ukrainian defenders performed their oath and defended the territorial integrity of their country <…> Ukraine fulfilled all the rules of international law, and the Russian Federation is constantly trying to violate them. ", - said Boychenko. The US Embassy in Washington said on Thursday that in Russia they were granted "unfounded accusations.

" The head of the occupation administration in Donetsk region Denis Pushilin believes that the courts can be conducted on Ukrainian regular troops, as well as representatives of the Azov Regiment. We will remind that according to the adviser of OP Alexei Arestovich, Russia will give up the mass tribunal over the "Azov", because the illegal court over the captives closes the possibility of negotiations with Ukraine.