As our Association previously reported, Ukrainian Ombudsman Dmitry Lubinets recently personally addressed the International Federation of Red Cross Societies with a letter in which he asked to explain the seizure of the Crimean property of the Red Cross Society in Ukraine in 2014 by the occupiers and its transfer to the “Russian one”.
Further, the Ombudsman did not report any reaction from Geneva to these events, but on November 24, the prosecutor’s office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol announced the opening of criminal proceedings, regarding Lubinets’ submission, for the illegal seizure of the said property in the Crimea occupied by Russia. The situation has not yet been publicly commented on by either the national or international structures of the Red Cross.
Let us recall that in 2016-2018, representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross periodically acted in Crimea, but only to “help people displaced to the Crimea from Donbass”, and not from the Kyiv, but from the Moscow office of that international organization, then this mission was promptly terminated, as obviously not acting in accordance with the general policy of the International Committee, recognizing the territorial integrity of Ukraine, including the Crimea.
