The head of Amnesty International's Ukraine office announced she had resigned over the group's publication of a controversial report that accused Ukraine's military of endangering civilians.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday accused Russia of using the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant "for terror" after the operator of the facility reported major damage at the site.
And the head of Amnesty International's Ukraine office announced she had resigned from the organisation over the group's publication of a controversial report that accused the country's military of endangering civilians.Volodymyr Zelenskyy responds to Amnesty allegations of Ukrainian forces 'putting civilians at risk'
The European Union's top diplomat Josep Borrell condemned the attack "as a serious and irresponsible breach of nuclear safety rules and another example of Russia's disregard for international norms". Vitaly Gur "is in hospital with multiple gunshot wounds, in a critical state", an unnamed official told Russian state news agency TASS. Gur is the deputy chief of the Kakhovka district, some 80 kilometres east of Kherson city.
"It's a very eloquent silence, which points out, once more, a manipulative selectivity of this organisation," he added. Ms Pokalchuk said she had tried to warn Amnesty's senior leadership that the report was one-sided and failed to properly take into account the Ukrainian position but had been ignored.
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