Russia is robbing Ukraine not only of grain but also of metal products, and the occupiers have cleared part of the port of Mariupol, Lyudmila Denisova, the Ukrainian parliament’s human rights commissioner, said on Saturday.
“The racists continue to plunder the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine,” she wrote on the Telegram. “The looting of Ukrainian grain is followed by the export of metal products from Mariupol.”
It is already known that the first ship with three tons of stolen metal will go from Mariupol to Rostov-on-Don in Russia. Russia has also begun resuming rail traffic in Mariupol and Volnovah to facilitate the removal of the spoils of war, law enforcement said.
According to her information, up to 200,000 tons of metal and cast iron worth 170 million tons were in the port of Mariupol before the Russian occupation.
According to Denisova, Russia violates the 1949 Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War and Article 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. She called on the UN commission to investigate human rights abuses during Russia’s military invasion to take these facts into account.
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