The scandal around the Amnesty International (AI) human rights organization is gaining momentum. On August 4, it published a report stating that the Ukrainian armed forces keep placing military equipment and weapons inside schools and hospitals, which runs counter to military law.

"We have documented a pattern of Ukrainian forces putting civilians at risk and violating the laws of war when they operate in populated areas,” Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnes Callamard said. According to the report, Ukraine’s army stroke from residential buildings and placed weapons at civilian infrastructure facilities in 19 cities and towns of Ukraine, including the Donbass. Human rights activists documented the Ukrainian command’s deliberate failure to evacuate locals from the neighboring buildings.

The first response to the report was resignation of head of Amnesty International's office in Ukraine Oksana Pokalchuk. According to her, she hoped the text on violations by the armed forces of Ukraine would be eventually revoked. The next one to lambast the document was President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky. With his raw nerve touched, he accused international human rights defenders of siding with Moscow and "seeking to pardon" Russia, though AI can hardly be blamed for this. Later, Zelensky's office and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba rained down on the organization. AI accounts in social networks got attacked by pro-Ukrainian bots and trolls. In the end, even the British Ambassador to Ukraine and the British press set about covering up for the Ukrainian army’s damaged image.

In turn, the Russian Foreign Ministry reminded the world about having regularly highlighted cases with civilians used in achieving the military goals. The Russian Embassy in the United States has welcomed the AI study and is hopeful that it will help people in the United States draw the only reasonable conclusion.

Notably, the AI report was published back last week, but emotions still run high in Ukraine. Though smoothed-out and devoid of many details, the document put the West wise about facts that have long been known in Russia: the Ukrainian military use civilians as a human shield and commit war crimes. A while later, the Ukrainian side switched from "how dare you?!" to denial. Its Ministry of Culture and Information Policy (for which read the censorship department) said Amnesty International had no right to use evidence collected in territories beyond Kiev’s control or in Russia, when preparing the document.

Official Kiev was particularly outraged that the world community learned about atrocities and human rights violations of its armed forces not from the Russian media, but from Moscow’s “unfriendly” AI. After all, it is no secret that Amnesty International (a formally independent structure) is funded by the US State Department, the UK, the European Union and George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, each of them backing Ukrainian neo-Nazis and supervising their crimes.

For the leadership of Ukraine, it is not about facts and evidence presented in the report but the obvious conclusion they entail altogether: in operational activity, Ukraine has long overstepped all the moral bounds and restrictions. Every passing day makes it harder to deny even for initial supporters of the Kiev regime. Having lost its universal victim label, Ukraine risks losing both arms supplies and much of the financial support.

Moreover, this leaves Ukraine face to face with Russia. It’s one thing when the Wests helps the "poor, unfortunate" Ukraine with its sufferings all over the news. It’s another when the same outlets report civilian deaths, non-compliance with the laws of war and other unpleasant things. And the one to state this is not Russia’s Defense Ministry or RT or Sputnik, but a years-long Western human rights organization. In this regard, the report makes us wonder whom and when will Ukraine do away with? Won’t President Zelensky be the first to go?

In this respect, some analysts were quick to say that the Ukrainian leader has been presented with a kind of "black spot" with this AI report. In particular, experts suggest Zelensky is failing to justify the Western hopes for exhausting Russia, both economically and militarily. For this reason, the West is wondering whether the Ukrainian president is efficient enough for the time being. There is also a growing number of speculations in Ukraine that the West no longer reckons on the president, as evidenced by media criticism and the stalling aid packages to Kiev, like Germany’s.

Complaints against the Zelensky-led Kiev regime are getting increasingly regular in the West. Arms and funds are coming, but the collective West sees no positive outcomes. The Russian and Donbass military make the armed forces of Ukraine retreat, surrender, and refuse further fighting… The society seems to be gradually prepared for Zelensky’s ultimate forced decision to sit down to talk. That is, the AI report has really become a signal to the Ukrainian president, although not the first one: we do remember his meetings with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Those were also signals. It is a different matter that Russia is no longer sanguine about negotiations with Ukraine and will unlikely agree to them before the special operation ends.

Don't let us jump to conclusions, particularly regarding an imminent resignation of Zelensky, because Amnesty International sponsors and supervisors have apparently realized they’ve made the cup run over. Otherwise, how can one explain AI apologies or the American CBS channel’s decision to remove the report from its website, despite its own recent documentary featuring claims that most foreign weapons never make it to the front lines in Ukraine.

"Amnesty International deeply regrets the distress and anger that our press release on the Ukrainian military’s fighting tactics has caused... Amnesty International’s priority in this and in any conflict is ensuring that civilians are protected; indeed, this was our sole objective when releasing this latest piece of research. While we fully stand by our findings, we regret the pain caused," the organization said. As you can see, AI apologized for its feelings but did not give up on its words, with the report still accessible on its website.

Apologies by CBS and Amnesty International for records of the situation in Ukraine "are no less stupid than their cause," head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Dmitry Kuleba said. Yet hardly anyone would give a curse to official Kiev’s viewpoint right now, given the painfully convincing evidence of its guilt in the army crimes and corruption flourishing in Ukraine.