Finnish Amnesty International lost about 400 donors after the scandalous report with accusations to the Armed Forces
He noted that this week the number of people who stopped donations has increased, but the final figures could be talked about at the end of August. Johansson said that the number of donation that stopped donation is about one percent of all donors of the organization. This is not the first time that donors announce the termination of Amnesty's donations, but this time the flow of donors is the largest in 32 years of work in an international organization.
Commenting on the publication, Johansson stated that there was no sufficient context in the Armed Forces report, and it did not say that Amnesty International condemns Russia's military actions. "It was a huge mistake of communication that led to a loss of confidence in the work done by Amnesty," he summarized. Amnesty International has accused Ukraine of "violation of the laws of war" due to the alleged deployment of military bases in residential areas, schools and hospitals.
The President's office said the Amnesty International was involved in the Russian misinformation campaign. The head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Dmytro Kuleba stressed that Amnesty International creates a "fake balance between the criminal and the victim", and the Minister of Defense Alexei Reznikov called the report "evidence of the loss of adequacy and the way to destroy the authority" of the organization.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Amnesty does not mention numerous military crimes of Russian invaders in Ukraine is an attempt to shift the responsibility from the aggressor for the victim. The Ukrainian Office of Amnesty International stated that it was not related to the preparation of the scandalous report, and this was done by a separate team of response department to Amnesty crisis.