Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleh Nikolenko announced that Russia's foreign intelligence service is spreading a fake that "Ukraine has informed Britain that it does not intend to abide by the Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War".
"Russia's allegations about the Geneva Convention are another such a fake. It aims to discredit relations between Ukraine and international humanitarian organizations rescuing victims of Russian aggression and trying to bring deportees and prisoners home," Nikolenko said.
He noted that Ukraine "remains committed to its international obligations under international law despite hundreds of Russian fakes, unlike Russia showing indifference to its servicemen who came to Ukraine: both living and dead".
The Foreign Ministry spokesman said that earlier Russian intelligence had spread false information about "allegedly thousands of Ukrainians seeking asylum in Russia, inhumane treatment of Russian prisoners of war, Azovstal "employees" who are "begging" to join the Russian aggressor army".
The day before, the Minister of Justice Denys Malyuska reported that the Russian propaganda spreads fakes that "captive Russians are expected to be ill-treated, and they will be tortured". The head of the Ministry of Justice stressed that Ukraine provides normal conditions for the detention of Russian prisoners, provided by international standards and the Geneva Convention.
Malyuska also said that Ukraine finally had an opportunity to set up a POW camp.