'President Zelensky and his government must respect human rights and labor rights, both because it will help the war effort and because it is the right thing to do.'
in controlling Ukrainian media has always been a problem, but until now there had at least been contending views expressed. That is now at risk.
Another group whose rights are in danger are Ukrainians who were involuntarily mobilized into pro-Russian units in the Donbas. The Ukrainian government had quite properly declared that any such captured soldiers would be amnestied so long as they were not guilty of war crimes. But now Ukrainian authorities have, sentencing captured soldiers to long prison terms for treason without any attempt to determine whether they served the Russians voluntarily or under compulsion.
Of course, Kyiv’s rights abuses don’t come close to those of Moscow. Even before the 2022 invasion, in terms of democracy and human rights, Russia
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