President of the International Committee of the Red Cross Peter Maurer made a two-day visit to Moscow, during which he raised a number of humanitarian issues on the situation in Ukraine. However, the official communique following the trip does not indicate any specific results of the visit or agreements..

According to the ICRC, during the visit, Mr. Maurer met with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Deputy Defense Minister Colonel-General Alexander Fomin and Russian Red Cross President Pavel Savchuk.

Mr. Maurer noted the need to facilitate the exit of civilians from cities where fighting is taking place, emphasized the inviolability of facilities such as hospitals and schools, raised the need to report all prisoners of war and facilitate the return of the bodies of the dead, as well as the need to provide medical care in war zones.

“My discussions with the Russian authorities are part of the existing sustainable dialogue between the ICRC and Russia on humanitarian needs and international humanitarian law. Last week I was in Kyiv, and this week in Moscow;

I also visited Donbass several times. We are talking to all parties with the same goal: to save lives and reduce the suffering of people during armed conflict,” Mauer said after the visit..

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Recall that the bodies of Russian soldiers who died in the Sumy region in the first days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine have not yet been taken to the Russian Federation. For about a month they have been in special packages on the streets of the city or in the yards.