UN human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet, at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, on Thursday cautioned that Russia’s threat of nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine puts all humanity on the surface of the earth at risk.
Michelle Bachelet decried that Russia’s the invasion of Ukraine one week ago “is generating massive impact on the human rights of millions of people across Ukraine”. He lamented that millions of people in Ukraine are seeing their rights trampled, adding, while the rising nuclear threat put all humanity at risk.
Michelle Bachelet at an urgent council debate on rights violations in Ukraine, lamented the “numerous casualties in a conflict that has already forced more than one million people to flee the
She disclosed that her office had recorded 227 civilian deaths, including those of at least 15 children, saying that the real numbers “will be far higher”.
Michelle Bachelet noted that most of the casualties “were caused by the use of heavy artillery, multi-launch rocket systems and air strikes in populated areas, with concerning reports of use of cluster munitions striking civilian targets.”
“I call for the immediate cessation of such force,” She declared.
Bachelet admonished that the war in Ukraine has “opened a new and dangerous chapter in world history”.
She reiterated, “Elevated threat levels for nuclear weapons underline the gravity of the risks to all of humanity.”
President Vladimir Putin of Russian had on Sunday ordered the country’s deterrence nuclear forces to be on high alert.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused Western politicians of fixating on nuclear war.