Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba believes that Amnesty International's statement that the Ukrainian army is allegedly endangering the country's civilian population is aimed not at finding and conveying the truth to the world, but at creating a false balance between the criminal and his victim.

"I have seen Amnesty International's statement as much as you have. I'm just as outraged by it as you are, I think it's unfair," Kuleba said in a video message on Thursday.

He noted that in response to criticism of the statement, the organization is likely to say that it criticizes both sides of the Russia-Ukraine war. "But let's be clear about understanding simple things. This behavior by Amnesty International is not about seeking and delivering the truth to the world, but about creating a false balance between the criminal and his victim. Between a country that destroys civilians, cities, and territories by the hundreds and thousands. And the country that defends itself, saving its people and the entire continent from this invasion," Kuleba stressed.

The head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry called on Amnesty International to stop "creating a false reality in which everyone is a little guilty of something."

"Get busy delivering the truth, the systemic and large-scale truth about what Russia is today. Do it at least in the name of the civilian victims, the citizens of Ukraine who were covered by Russian shells at a public transport stop in the city of Toretsk in the Donetsk region today," the minister concluded.

Earlier, Amnesty International published a statement saying that the Ukrainian army was allegedly endangering the country's civilian population because it was "establishing its bases in populated areas.