Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has arrived in Russia to hold talks with President Vladimir Putin and also attend an unveiling of a monument to late Cuban leader Fidel Castro, a Sputnik correspondent reported on Saturday.
The plane carrying the Cuban president with his spouse and the delegation landed at around 18:30 GMT at Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow.
Diaz-Canel was welcomed by a military orchestra, which performed the Cuban and Russian anthems.
Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel, 2nd right, and his wife Lis Cuesta Perara arrive at Moscow's Government Vnukovo airport for an official visit to Russia, in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2022. Diaz-Canel is set to hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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The visit will include negotiations between the two heads of state and the opening of a monument to Fidel Castro who led the Cuban Revolution and was the leader of Cuba from 1953 to 2008.
The program of the Cuban president’s visit involves negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin and participation in the opening of a monument to Fidel Castro.
The sculpture dedicated to the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution will be erected in the square of the same name in Moscow’s Sokol district.
El presidente @DiazCanelB arribó a #Rusia 🇷🇺, para cumplir una visita oficial a esta nación.
Su estancia aquí es parte de la gira que comenzó el pasado 16 de noviembre por Argelia; y seguirá luego a Türkiye y China.#DíazCanelEnRusia 🇨🇺 🇷🇺 pic.twitter.com/hyyAyEpwsq
Garmendia added that the unveiling ceremony will take place next Tuesday and the Cuban delegation will arrive in the Russian capital a couple of days earlier.
Dan O’Dowd says Tesla’s “Full Self Driving” software shouldn’t be on the road. He’ll keep running over test dummies until someone listens.
Dan O’Dowd says Tesla’s “Full Self Driving” software shouldn’t be on the road. He’ll keep running over test dummies until someone listens.
Dan O’Dowd is on a one-man crusade to challenge what he sees as the cavalier development of dangerous technology, starting with Tesla’s ‘Full Self Driving.'
to expose what he sees as incomplete and unsafe software being used in cars and power plants and in cybersecurity.That hasn’t happened yet, but the company has steadily upgraded Autopilot over the years, allowing drivers to give up more control over their vehicles, though Tesla insists they must stay alert at all times. Full Self-Driving Beta represents the latest version of Tesla’s tech,
with a Tesla owners group posted in June, Musk said successfully building self-driving software is “the difference between Tesla being worth a lot of money and being worth basically zero.”.any more to meet safety standards.O’Dowd’s strategy is straightforward: Find proof that Tesla’s software makes serious mistakes and get that evidence in front of the public and regulators.
Dan O'Dowd, the California tech executive who is running for Senate to bash Elon Musk, in April 2022, launched a multi-million-dollar national TV ad campaign Tuesday calling for the Tesla founder's self-driving vehicles to be banned from American roads.
”It fails all the time,” O’Dowd said during the 15-minute call, which an aide said he was taking between hours of planned business meetings.
O’Dowd, the founder and chief executive of Green Hills Software and a self-described billionaire from Santa Barbara, also confirmed that his team includes the venerated Democratic admaker Mark Putnam and that veteran party operative John Blair is managing the campaign. Tim Maltin, a high-powered public affairs executive in London, is on board to help the novice Democratic politician with press and social media, O’Dowd said.
California’s political graveyard is littered with the carcasses of wealthy self-funding candidates with no government experience who bring in boldface names to help with their high-dollar runs only to suffer humiliating defeats. The main questions swirling around O’Dowd is not whether he can win, but if he wants to, what victory for him looks like and whether he complicates matters for fellow Democrats along the way.
O’Dowd wouldn’t say he was using a Senate campaign purely as a means of drawing attention to his pet issues, as the people familiar with his plans anticipated that he would. Nor would he explicitly say if he was actually trying to win the contest. Qualifying for the ballot and formally running affords him a higher degree of first amendment protection for his loaded claims about Tesla and makes it far more likely TV stations will air the anti-Tesla spots his team produces.
Dan O’Dowd is one of the most loyal Tesla customers. When undergoing his midlife crisis, he bought two near-identical Tesla Roadsters, the first model the electric carmaker ever produced. Well, those were not the last Teslas he ever purchased; this year, he procured a Model 3 equipped with Full Self-Driving Beta, which allows the car to drive on its own on highways and busy city streets
The entrepreneur who has made his fortune by selling military software to customers has been using his latest Tesla to test and film the self-driving software. The results are not very Tesla-friendly. The tests show the car swerving across the centerline toward oncoming traffic, failing to slow down in a school zone and missing stop signs.
Only recently, he posted a video in which a Tesla in full self-driving mode could be seen mowing down child-size mannequins.
“If Tesla gets away with this and ships this product and I can’t convince the public that a self-driving car that drives like a drunken, suicidal 13-year-old shouldn’t be on the road, I’m going to fail,” O’Dowd said in an interview from his Santa Barbara office.
Aside from O’Dowd’s big stage, Tesla continues to develop its game-changing technology. During a Tesla event in September, Musk stated that since Full Self-Driving is already saving lives, keeping technology off of public roads would be “morally wrong.”
“At the point of which you believe that adding autonomy reduces injury and death, I think you have a moral obligation to deploy it even though you’re going to get sued and blamed by a lot of people,” Musk said.
Many followers of Elon Musk have criticized O’Dowd for his movements. Tesla sent a cease-and-desist letter in response to O’Dowd’s infant mannequin experiment. O’Dowd also claimed that his last Twitter ad was recently rejected.
However, Tesla fans are not the only ones who criticize. Safety experts have disputed whether objective rogue testing is the most effective strategy for more legislative measures.
“They’re doing it on public roads. It still raises the same ethical issues that you’re putting other people at nonconsensual risk,” said Phil Koopman, an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University who has studied autonomous car safety for years.
“I’m not a fan, no matter who it is.”
“Consumers should never attempt to create their own test scenarios,” said National Highway Traffic Safety Administration spokeswoman Lucia Sanchez.
With Tesla’s full self-driving feature in mind, O’Dowd suggests that software be built thoroughly before being released. It is opposite to most leading technology corporations’ “move fast and break things” attitude. Tesla, he argues, has taken that attitude and applied it to public highways.
For ages, Tesla automobiles have come equipped with the Autopilot technology as a standard kit. However, the Full Self-Driving Beta function offered by the company is considerably superior to anything else.
O’Dowd is no stranger to brawls publicly. He authored multiple blog postings two decades ago warning that the Linux operating system, which was beginning to threaten his firm, was unsafe because foreign spies might introduce malicious code into it. But his cautions usually went unheeded.
This time, he decided to have the Dawn Project, a larger initiative, that revolves around Tesla’s software. Based on an analysis of dozens of hours of YouTube video, he began his campaign in January with an ad in the New York Times claiming that the software makes a mistake every eight minutes.
Our @NYTimes full-page ad today shows @ElonMusk's Full Self-Driving cars fail to obey 'Do Not Enter’ and ‘Road Closed’ signs. 89% agree it should be banned. @Tesla should immediately fire the engineers who signed off this dangerous software to 160k people.https://t.co/TrcPErhjAopic.twitter.com/gkgOkRClft
Then there came his run for the Senate campaign. He invested millions in television ads that included Tesla customers compelled to step in when their Full Self-Driving Beta vehicles made mistakes. Another set of adverts contrasts Musk’s predictions for the day when his cars will be able to drive themselves with the fact that they will still need close driver supervision.
To ease any residual doubts about his techniques, O’Dowd stated that he planned to repeat the tests, this time in front of the press, authorities, Tesla enthusiasts, and even Musk himself.
The Hawaii politician, once considered a rising star in the Democratic Party, quit the party last month, attacking its leadership for being an “elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness.”
Former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has ripped into President Biden, the Washington elite and the US military-industrial complex, accusing the government of wringing Americans dry by hiring an army of Internal Revenue Service agents, while sending billions of dollars to the MIC and unaccountable and corrupt actors in Ukraine.
“We have politicians from both political parties who are the permanent Washington elite, and who must be held accountable for what they’re doing with our taxpayer dollars and how they’re undermining our national security as they push us closer and closer to the brink of nuclear catastrophe,” Gabbard said, filling in for Fox News host Tucker Carlson on a special anniversary edition of Tucker Carlson Tonight this week.
Demanding that Washington “stop giving a blank check to Ukraine and demand accountability” for the tens of billions of dollars already sent, Gabbard stressed that much of this money has gone to the US military-industrial complex, which has already made “trillions of dollars” off of US wars abroad.
“Now the Biden wants to hire 87,000 new IRS agents to go over every receipt and every deductible of American taxpayers with a fine tooth comb, squeezing every penny that they can. (For) the Ukrainian government and their corrupt bureaucrats and oligarchs, and the defense contractors who are profiting from all these weapons, the Biden administration requires no receipts at all. Why is this? Is because they know that most of this money, our taxpayer dollars is going to corrupt bureaucrats…Their actions expose who they really care about. It’s not us,” Gabbard said.
The politician-turned-commentator complained that as Washington continues to ship cash and troops to conflicts abroad, the White House and Congress are failing in their duty to care for America’s veterans.
“As we speak here we have soldiers who are forced to rely on food stamps to feed their families, soldiers who are living in uninhabitable conditions, and those who are not getting the care that they need for service-related injuries, illnesses and diseases,” Gabbard said.
Gabbard, 41, served as a congresswoman in the House of Representatives between 2013 and 2021, and as vice chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee between 2013 and 2016. She quit DNC vice chairwomanship in protest of the primary process, accusing DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schulz of rigging the vote in favor of former Obama secretary of state Hillary Clinton against Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.
Gabbard served two tours in the Middle East, including a tour in Iraq, as a member of the Hawaii National Guard, and ran for president in 2020, where her evisceration of former California Attorney General Kamala Harris by pointing to the latter’s record of incarcerating African Americans on petty drug offenses forced Harris to drop out of the race before any primaries or caucuses were held.
Gabbard has long been among the most outspoken politicians in the US when it comes to foreign affairs, travelling to Syria in 2017 and condemning Washington’s attempts at regime change there, and slamming US aid for Ukraine, citing the danger of the conflict escalating into a Third World War with Russia.
After months of media reporting citing fears that US arms sent to Ukraine have been appearing on international weapons black markets, even US allies in Europe have begun to express concern over the matter, citing military-grade armaments falling into the hands of criminal groups.
Meanwhile, the Biden administration has confirmed that it has deployed a "small number" of troops to Ukraine to audit Western weapons deliveries, raising tensions with Moscow amid concerns over what would happen if a Russian missile or airstrike killed Americans during an attack on a Ukrainian ammunition depot.
Pembuatan Kaca di tungku Barovier&Toso. Perusahaan memasarkan dirinya sebagai yang tertua dari jenisnya di Murano, pulau pembuat kaca Venesia.. Kredit...Matthew de Mayda untuk The New York Times.
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Jika Anda berada di toko Dolce & Gabbana atau Louis Vuitton tertentu, atau lobi beberapa hotel Bulgari atau Four Seasons, pastikan untuk mencarinya. Anda mungkin akan melihat perlengkapan lampu satu-satunya yang besar, menyilaukan, setiap potongan kaca tertiup mulut di pulau Venetian Murano, seperti yang telah dilakukan selama lebih dari 700 tahun.
Itulah mengapa Anda mungkin melihat jenis lampu gantung yang sama dalam lukisan karya Tintoretto dan Titian, Caravaggio, dan Giorgione.
Semuanya dibuat oleh Barovier&Toso, yang memasarkan dirinya sebagai operasi pembuatan kaca tertua di pulau pembuat kaca tersebut.
Lusinan potongan kecil dipajang di showroom perusahaan.Kredit...Matteo de Mayda untuk The New York Times
Pendirinya, Jacobello Barovier, pindah dari Venesia ke Murano pada akhir 1200-an untuk bekerja dalam pembuatan kaca, tepat setelah Republik Venesia, seperti pada saat itu, mengharuskan semua pembuatan kaca dilakukan di pulau itu dalam upaya untuk menjaga industri tersebut, bertukar rahasia.Dia membuka pabrik kacanya sendiri pada tahun 1295, dan beroperasi secara mandiri hingga tahun 1936, ketika bergabung dengan bisnis pembuatan kaca Toso.
Saat ini, pengunjung Murano dapat memasuki toko Palazzo Barovier&Toso di Rio dei Vetrai, atau sungai pembuat kaca, serta ruang pamer bisnis, melintasi kanal dengan jembatan penyeberangan. Di dalam ruang pamer ada pintu kayu berat yang ditandai dengan nama perusahaan saat ini dan tanggal 1295. Di belakang pintu terdapat ruang batu besar yang digunakan sebagai penyimpanan, tetapi pada tahun 1500-an, ketika perusahaan datang ke alamat ini, di situlah tungku dibakar. dan peniup kaca awalnya melakukan keajaiban mereka.
Saat ini, pekerjaan dilakukan di kamar-kamar yang bersebelahan yang ditambahkan selama bertahun-tahun, masing-masing terbuat dari batu dan dengan langit-langit tinggi untuk menyerap panas serta jendela besar untuk membiarkan cahaya masuk.
Pengunjung dapat memasuki markas Barovier&Toso di Rio dei Vetrai, atau sungai. Kredit...Matteo de Mayda untuk The New York Times
Prosesnya dimulai dengan resep rahasia yang telah diwariskan dalam keluarga dari generasi ke generasi. Setiap bagian, demikian sebutan resepnya, terdiri dari pasir, oksida, garam mineral, dan bubuk dalam jumlah yang berbeda-beda — setiap minggu, sekitar 3.000 hingga 4.000 kilogram bahan-bahan ini tiba dengan tongkang yang mengapung melalui laguna. (Partia adalah bahasa gaul Venesia untuk partita, atau jumlah barang, yang dalam hal ini adalah pasir.)
Tungku berkobar, seperti biasanya, memuncak pada 1.400 derajat Celcius (2.252 derajat Fahrenheit) pada malam hari untuk menjaga agar partia tetap cair dan bebas dari gelembung. Peniup kaca, yang berlatih selama 20 tahun untuk menguasai seni mereka, masih meniup melalui mulut ke dalam pipa panjang untuk membuat balon dari kaca kental.Balon kemudian dimanipulasi hingga menjadi salah satu dari ribuan keping yang digunakan untuk membuat lampu gantung;perusahaan juga membuat benda seni kaca, vas bunga dan gelas minum.
Setiap resep pembuatan, masing-masing terdiri dari jumlah pasir, oksida, garam mineral, dan bubuk yang bervariasi. Kredit...Matteo de Mayda untuk The New York Times
Gelas disiapkan dengan melelehkan bahan mentah, dan tungku menyala pada malam hari agar tetap cair dan bebas dari gelembung. Kredit...Matteo de Mayda untuk The New York Times
Langkah selanjutnya membutuhkan kemahiran pengrajin (sangat sedikit wanita yang bekerja di peniupan kaca selama berabad-abad, karena pekerjaan itu dianggap terlalu ketat). Mereka menggunakan gudang alat antik, termasuk tang, gunting, dan templat, untuk membuat karya.
Oven pendingin membuat potongan siap untuk diselesaikan dengan tangan, dan berbagai departemen menggiling, memoles, membersihkan, merakit, mengemas, dan mengirimkan produk jadi. Tujuh puluh tujuh orang bekerja di BarovierToso, 30 dalam produksi. Sejauh ini di tahun 2022, omset telah mencapai $12,5 juta.
Beberapa teknik sejak berabad-abad yang lalu masih digunakan oleh perusahaan. Vetro a ghiaccio, atau gelas es, diketahui telah digunakan sejak tahun 1570, ketika disebutkan di peta Venesia; permukaan gila dicapai dengan mencelupkan kaca panas, yang masih menempel pada pipa peniup kaca, ke dalam air.
Rugiada, atau embun, dengan pecahan-pecahan kecilnya menempel pada kaca agar terlihat seperti tetesan embun, ditemukan oleh Ercole Barovier pada tahun 1938. Untuk mendapatkan kaca ini, permukaannya ditutupi dengan banyak potongan kaca leleh yang dianil, mirip dengan kaca kecil. tetes embun, terkadang daun emas ditambahkan untuk memperindah objek.
Dan untuk mendapatkan hasil akhir corteccia, atau kulit kayu, kaca yang ditiup ditempatkan dengan hati-hati di cetakan kayu pir atau besi tuang, yang membuat permukaan benda terlihat seperti kulit pohon.
Oven pendingin membuat potongan siap untuk diselesaikan dengan tangan. Kemudian digiling, dipoles, dirakit dan dikemas untuk pengiriman. Kredit...Matteo de Mayda untuk The New York Times
Potongan jadi dapat terlihat seperti ditutupi dengan tetesan embun atau kulit kayu. Beberapa dari metode ini telah digunakan selama berabad-abad. Kredit...Matteo de Mayda untuk The New York Times
Perusahaan telah berhasil menyesuaikan penawarannya agar sesuai dengan gaya zaman, dan hari ini beralih ke desainer seperti master Belanda Marcel Wanders atau Stefano Dolce dan Domenico Gabbana untuk membuat perlengkapan untuk koleksi Casa merek mereka (lampu gantung individu mulai dari $175.300).
Seperti yang ditulis oleh wakil presiden eksekutif Grup Bulgari yang bertanggung jawab atas hotel dan resor, Silvio Ursini, dalam email, Bulgari telah lama menjalin hubungan dengan Barovier&Toso. Lampu gantung, tulisnya, membuat kamar hotel yang trendi berubah menjadi "permata".
Much of what Barovier&Toso produces is custom-made, and very expensive. On the lower end is the new Opera table lamp, inspired by the Opéra Garnier in Paris and designed by Philippe Nigro ($6,250).
Karya paling rumit yang dibuat oleh Barovier & Toso mungkin adalah lampu gantung setinggi 16 meter (hampir 53 kaki) yang dibuatnya pada tahun 1960-an untuk bursa saham Montreal di Kanada. Pesaing lainnya adalah lampu gantung yang dibuat pada tahun 1980 untuk seorang syekh Saudi yang membutuhkan hampir 2.000 buah, banyak di antaranya dengan daun emas. Karya tersebut terbukti berpengaruh, dengan merek mewah seperti Dolce & Gabbana menggunakan versi tersebut di butik mereka di seluruh dunia.
Saat ini, perusahaan beralih ke desainer seperti Marcel Wanders untuk membuat perlengkapan untuk koleksi Casa merek mereka. Kredit...Matteo de Mayda untuk The New York Times
Wakil presiden eksekutif Grup Bulgari menulis dalam email bahwa lampu gantung Barovier & Toso mengubah kamar hotel menjadi 'permata'. Kredit...Matteo de Mayda untuk The New York Times
evys1bk0">In 2015, the business’s owner, Jacopo Barovier, was ready to retire, and the only younger Barovier was unwilling to enter the business. After searching for a buyer with respect for artistry and heritage, Mr. Barovier decided to sell the business to Rinaldo Invernizzi, a local art collector and painter (who is having his first personal exhibition, titled “Smeraldo. Antracite. Cobalto,” as part of the 2022 Venice Biennale.)
“Saya adalah seorang penggila dan kolektor kaca artistik yang hebat dan oleh karena itu saya mengenal merek Barovier & Toso dengan sangat baik,” tulis Mr. Invernizzi dalam sebuah email. “Saya mengambil kesempatan dan tantangan untuk memimpin perusahaan ini dengan penuh semangat dan rasa hormat.”
Tetapi dia menulis bahwa akan ada beberapa perubahan yang signifikan. “Kami berinvestasi dalam teknologi dan kolaborasi dengan desainer, mengubah strategi di tingkat organisasi dan manajerial, membuka pasar luar negeri dan mengekspor karya kaca yang luar biasa ini ke seluruh dunia,” tulisnya.
“Yang paling membuat saya terpesona adalah kelayakan dan kemungkinan pembaharuan, bahkan untuk realitas seperti seni kaca Murano kuno.”
Detektif internet mengira mereka telah melihat penjelajah waktu di foto lama
Time Traveller atau penjelajah waktu, baik kembali ke masa lalu atau jauh ke masa depan, menggunakan mesin waktu – cenderung lebih menggambarkan dunia buku dan film fiksi, tetapi itu tidak menghentikan beberapa orang untuk terus percaya, melawan segala rintangan, bahwa melompat ke garis waktu yang berbeda adalah mungkin.
Ahli teori konspirasi di media sosial yang percaya pada kemungkinan bepergian melalui ruang dan waktu telah mengalami hari lapangan dengan foto lama yang berasal dari Perang Dunia II. Foto hitam-putih itu menggambarkan seorang pria mengenakan parit berwarna terang dengan tangan terulur ke kepalanya dengan cara yang tampak seperti seseorang yang sedang mengobrol di ponsel, tegas mereka.
Berasal dari arsip keluarga Kristján Hoffman, seorang Islandia, foto itu dibagikan di halaman grup Facebook bernama Gamlar ljósmyndir ("Foto Lama"). Adegan yang ditangkap dalam bidikan tersebut adalah pasukan Sekutu yang dikerahkan di ibu kota Islandia, Reykjavík, selama Perang Dunia Kedua.
Kristján Hoffman menulis postingannya, mengatakan bahwa pria yang ditampilkan di tengah gambar tampak "miring" dan tampak seolah-olah sedang berbicara menggunakan ponsel." Fakta bahwa karakter misterius dalam foto tersebut secara mencolok tidak mengenakan pakaian tentara. kelelahan dan memegang tangannya di dekat telinganya diperbesar oleh banyak orang fanatik 'perjalanan waktu'.
Tidak butuh waktu lama bagi media sosial untuk mengutarakan pendapat mereka, bersikeras bahwa pria itu pasti penjelajah waktu.
Akun lainnya, Karolina Petursdottir, bahkan membangkitkan kemiripan dengan “Dr. Who,” menurut Mirror.
Di luar grup foto lama, gambar tersebut menemukan jalannya ke dalam video teori konspirasi di YouTube berjudul "10 Kasus NYATA Perjalanan Waktu yang Tidak Dapat Dijelaskan".
Anehnya, teori bahwa pria itu beroperasi sebagai mata-mata kekuatan Poros tidak diajukan oleh pihak mana pun yang terlibat.
Sebaliknya, mereka yang memiliki filosofi lebih berkepala dingin di grup Facebook bersikeras bahwa dia baru saja memeriksa untuk melihat apakah arlojinya berfungsi.
Yang lain mengatakan dia hanya menggunakan pipa tembakau dan menggaruk telinganya saat foto diambil.
"Dia ... berdiri sendiri dan mengenakan penutup kepala yang berbeda dari yang lain dan syal dan bertindak seperti yang akan kita lakukan hari ini," komentar Hoffmann di postingannya, menurut laporan media.
Meredam antusiasme para pendukung 'perjalanan waktu' yang tak terkendali, beberapa pengguna media sosial menawarkan penjelasan yang lebih 'masuk akal', berspekulasi bahwa orang itu hanya menggaruk telinganya atau memeriksa waktu di arlojinya. Dia mungkin juga memegang radio di telinganya, tambah yang lain.
Perjalanan waktu telah lama berada di ranah film fiksi ilmiah, dengan orang-orang yang bersemangat mengambil setiap peluang yang tampaknya membuktikan bahwa mengintip masa depan atau kembali ke masa lalu adalah mungkin.
Seperti dalam kasus proto tanggal Perang Dunia II, penggemar seni baru-baru ini meneliti lukisan Ferdinand George Waldmüller, berjudul 'The Expected One'. Mereka mengklaim bahwa wanita yang ditampilkan dalam kanvas berusia 150 tahun berjalan dengan latar belakang pedesaan yang indah sedang menatap smartphone di tangannya. Namun, orang yang lebih waras menunjukkan bahwa wanita itu lebih mungkin membaca buku doa.
Batu nisan Yunani kuno juga mengobarkan fantasi para fanatik konspirasi Sebuah relief marmer, dipahat pada tahun 100 SM, Grave Naiskos Of An Thronened Woman With An Attendant, dipajang di J. Paul Getty Museum di Malibu, California, terlihat memperlihatkan seorang wanita "menggunakan laptop". Tapi, sekali lagi, penjelasan lain yang lebih "realistis" untuk objek yang disodorkan budak perempuan itu kepada majikannya di patung itu adalah kotak lipat tipis.
The United Nations is calling for a full investigation of all reported human rights violations in the context of more than 10 brutally executed Russian Prisoners of War (PoW) by the Ukrainian side, UN Spokesperson Farhan Haq told Sputnik.
"We have called for all reported human rights violations by all sides in this conflict to be fully investigated and for there to be accountability," Haq said on Friday.
Earlier in the day, the Russian Defense Ministry said that the Ukrainian military had deliberately killed more than 10 captured Russian servicemen, shooting them in the head at point blank — a crime no one can present as a "tragic exception."
The defense ministry said that "the published new video evidence of the mass massacre of unarmed Russian prisoners of war by Ukrainian soldiers confirms the savage essence of the current Kiev regime led by (Ukrainian President Volodymyr) Zelensky and those who protect and support it."
The Russian Investigative Committee opened a criminal investigation on Friday into the execution of Russian POWs by the Ukrainian military. The committee said that Russian military investigators were also taking measures to identify individuals who captured the footage of the execution.
Russian MoD 'Over 10 Russian Servicemen Shot, Killed in Cold Blood by Ukrainian Forces'
Earlier in the day, grizzly footage posted to social media from Makeevka, a settlement in the Lugansk People’s Republic taken by Ukrainian forces this week, appeared to show that a dozen captured and unarmed Russian servicemen had been executed by their captors.
Russia's Defense Ministry confirmed Friday that more 10 Russian troops had been executed in cold blood by "degenerates" from the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
"(Volodymyr) Zelensky and his henchmen will have to answer before the court of history, the peoples of Russia and Ukraine for every tortured and executed prisoner of war," the MoD said in a briefing Friday.
Video evidence of the suspected war crime in Makeevka demonstrates "the vicious essence of the current Kiev regime headed by Zelensky and those who protect and support him," the military added.
"The brutal murder of Russian PoWs is not the first and only such war crime, but common practice among the Ukrainian Armed Forces, actively supported by the Kiev regime, and not noticed at point-blank range by its Western patrons," the MoD said.
The Russian military emphasized that Ukrainian servicemen captured by Russian forces this week are being held in accordance with the provisions of the Geneva Convention.
Earlier in the day, footage posted to social media allegedly shot in Makeevka, a settlement in the Lugansk People’s Republic recently captured by Ukrainian forces, showed the execution of up to a dozen captured Russian servicemen.
One video showed Russian troops exiting a bombed-out house one by one with their hands up and lying down on the ground. One of their comrades refused to surrender, opening fire on the Ukrainians with an automatic rifle, after which the video cut out. A second video, shot by a drone, showed twelve lifeless, unarmed Russian troops lying on the ground, in the same poses and locations they were in in the first video. Users suspected that the surrendered troops may have been killed ‘as punishment’ for their comrade who refused to give up.
Valery Fadeyev, chairman of the Russian Human Rights Council, promised to send the video materials to international organizations and demand an investigation into the suspected war crime.
Later Friday, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights confirmed that it was examining footage of the incident.
The executions at Makeevka are not the first time that Kiev has been accused of war crimes against Russian troops. In early April, footage emerged online showing Russian military personnel with their hands tied behind their backs being executed outside the Ukrainian capital. The detained PoWs are thought to have been killed by Georgian mercenary forces. In June, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that Russian forces liquidated members of the so-called 'Georgian Legion' thought to be involved in the torture and execution of unarmed Russian troops.
In May, a French medical volunteer opened up to local media on how he witnessed members of the Azov Regiment - the notorious neo-Nazi fighting force operating under the aegis of the Ukrainian National Guard, shooting captured Russian troops in the knees, and shooting officers in the head.
Also in May, the UN's Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine confirmed that it had "credible information" on the "torture, ill-treatment and incommunicado detention by [the] Ukrainian Armed Forces of prisoners of war belonging to the Russian Armed Forces and affiliated armed groups."
Russia and Ukraine have carried out a series of prisoner exchanges in recent months. While some returned Russian prisoners have indicated that the conditions of their captivity were acceptable, others have complained of beatings, humiliations, and torture, including of a sexual nature.
The Russian military and human rights groups have attributed part of the criminal behavior against Russian forces to the neo-Nazi formations such as Azov attached to regular Ukrainian detachments. Ukrainian prisoners of war captured by Russian and Donbass forces have also relayed stories of the neo-Nazis' crimes against even their own men, with a senior sergeant from a Ukrainian recon company telling Sputnik in April that ultra-right fighters used blocking detachment tactics to keep up fighting discipline and prevent desertion, threatening to shoot their own troops if they retreated.
In September, Russia swapped 215 Ukrainian PoWs, including over 100 Azov fighters and foreign mercs, for 55 Russian PoWs and pro-Russian Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk. The release of the Azov fighters was heavily criticized in some corners of Russian society, with critics suggesting the PoWs should have been tried and imprisoned for suspected war crimes. Others, including family members of the released Russians, pointed to the importance of getting their loved ones home to safety, given the difficult conditions they often face in captivity.
