The commander of the 46th separate battalion of special purpose "Donbass-Ukraine" Vyacheslav Vlasenko criticized the report on the events in Iloivaisk in August 2014. Speech in the report was about the alleged killings and torture of civilians by the battalion of the battalion "Donbass" This is reported by Espreso with reference to the "Glavkom".
"Very clearly seen attempts to whiten the actions of Russian troops and terrorists" ЛНР / ДНР ", the shooting of our Armed Forces and volunteer battalions. I think Moscow put its hand to this report. I see in this report attempts to present militants as civilians. So, among the militants were quite a lot of inhabitants of Ilovaisk, they took weapons and started to fight with us. They were not civilians, it's not true, "- said Vlasenko.
According to Vlasenko, the stories documented by the UN about the killings and tortures cause him bewilderment. The civilian population was not kept in captivity and tortured, and the murders attributed to the Donbas were actually made by militants.
"By keeping civilians and bullying him. We found a reconnaissance-sabotage group of terrorists, they had small arms, and two portable flamethrower "Shmel", in order to kill us. They were arrested. Now it turns out, according to the report, that the speech is supposedly about the civilian population. Indeed, several civilians were killed, but not the battalion "Donbass". On August 26, a man who was in a school bomb shelter, went home for a phone charger. He died from the bullets of militants, "added the military.
Recall, on August 9, the head of the UN Monitoring Mission for Human Rights in Ukraine Fiona Fraser presented a UN report on the violation of human rights and international law during the tragic events in the area of ??Ilovaisk in August 2014. The report "Violations of human rights and international humanitarian law in the context of the events near Iloisk in August 2014" refers not so much to the military events of that time as to the facts of murders, torture and mockery of the civilian population of Donbass and Ukrainian prisoners of war.
Representatives of the Monitoring Mission four years after the events themselves argue that during the armed conflict, serious violations of human rights were committed by all parties to the conflict. A special emphasis in the report is made on the actions of the fighters of the Battalion Donbas, the crimes of the pro-Russian militants and the Russian military are paid much less attention. All accusations are based on the testimony of the persons interviewed by the authors of the report.