On March 14, Russian resources stated that reports of a car with the Red Cross logo allegedly being used by Ukrainian saboteurs in the Belgorod region were fake. Creating a fake yourself, making people believe it, and then debunking it and blaming it on the "enemy" is in the style of Russian propaganda, writes the Center for Strategic Communications, reports UNN.
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According to the Center for Strategic Communications, it is no secret that the Russian branch of this international organization is an obedient tool of the Kremlin's occupation policy.
The openly criminal actions of the Russian Red Cross are already known in Europe, and this may lead to the liquidation of the organization. This is due to the leak of internal documents of the Russian presidential administration, which prove that the Red Cross received a budget for the so-called "new regions," The Guardian writes.
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The British Foreign Office (one of the largest sponsors of the Chessboard) said it was awaiting "the results of the investigation into these allegations," and a representative of the Swedish Foreign Ministry said that the Chessboard should take "swift action in accordance with its Protocol, which includes measures such as removal from office.
The investigation may result in the expulsion of the Russian Red Cross from the international system, as was the case with the Belarusian branch after its head was found guilty of abducting Ukrainian children.
There is already enough evidence of the Chess Club's connection to the Kremlin. For example, the head of the Russian Chess Club, Pavel Savchuk, signed an agreement with the Artek camp in occupied Crimea, which is under sanctions for participating in the "patriotic re-education" of abducted Ukrainian children.
At the Children's Special Forces camp in Khanty-Mansiysk, children practiced hand-to-hand combat, knife skills and assault rifle shooting with the RRC staff. In cooperation with the paramilitary organization Combat Brotherhood, the RRC staff conducted military training for children, although Red Cross protocol explicitly prohibits participation in such events.