The human rights organization Amnesty published a report on Thursday in which it claims that Ukrainian forces endanger the lives of civilians by setting up bases in residential areas and in schools and hospitals.
The report has met with harsh criticism.
SVT's foreign reporter Gilda Hamidi-Nia, who is in Kyiv together with photographer Marco Nilsson, says that many people take the content of the report seriously.
- The fear is that Russia will start using this in its warfare and in its propaganda.
Right now, over 20,000 war crimes that Russia may have committed are being investigated, she says in Rapport.
Chairman resigned in protest
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi dismisses the content of Amnesty's report and has instead accused Amnesty of trying to "shift the responsibility from the attacker to the victim".
- There is no situation, not even a hypothetical one, that can justify a single one of the Russian attacks against Ukraine, he says in a statement.
Oksana Pokalchuk, president of Amnesty International in Ukraine, has resigned in protest against the report.
She writes on Facebook that the organization has not taken into account the Ukrainian department's objections to the report.
The consequence is that Amnesty has published material that is now used in Russian propaganda, writes Pokalchuk.
Swedish Amnesty stands behind it
Russia has already started using the report for propaganda purposes, including in the UK, the Russian embassy has linked to the report on social media and retold selected parts.
Swedish Amnesty stands behind the report, says general secretary Anna Johansson in an interview with Svenska Dagbladet.
- All parties have an obligation to respect international humanitarian law and to the extent possible to protect civilians.
In this case, it is about specific places and times where we believe that Ukraine's military should have protected civilians in a better way, she tells SvD and also points out that both the UN and Human Rights Watch have come up with similar criticisms earlier this summer.