Lithuania protests to Russia over continued war crimes
On 17 November, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs handed a note of protest to a representative of the Russian embassy over the shelling of Ukrainian territory between 14 and 17 November.
The shelling killed more than ten people and injured several dozen civilians, damaged individual and multi-apartment buildings, a hospital, energy and other infrastructure facilities in Kyiv and the capital region, Kharkiv, Odessa, Sumy, and other regions.
The note, inter alia, highlights that the Russian attack of 14 November, in gross violation of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, caused significant damage to the Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan in Kyiv.
Lithuania also draws attention to a video published on 15 November in which Russian military officers executing two Ukrainian prisoners of war in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine. According to the assessment of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Russian military and political leadership continues to ignore these crimes and public calls to commit them, and this only reaffirms that such war crimes are committed with the knowledge and approval of the leadership. All of the above actions of the armed forces of the Russian Federation constitute war crimes, the note says.
The Republic of Lithuania demands an immediate end to the aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, the withdrawal of the occupying forces from the territory of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders, and full compensation for the damage suffered by Ukraine as a result of the Russian aggression.
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