The leadership of Ukraine expressed readiness to recognize that a number of violations of human rights and international humanitarian law have been committed by Kiev-controlled forces and volunteer battalions, said the UN assistant Secretary General Ivan ?imonovi?. Simonovic, speaking With a speech about the situation in Ukraine before the Council of the United Nations on human rights in Geneva, recalled that the mission of the high Commissioner United Nations human rights in Ukraine Since mid-September started to record which side of the conflict involved in the fire territory and the death of civilians, reports RIA " Novosti ". "The interlocutors in the government, in the most part, applauded the new approach and expressed the readiness to recognize that a number of cases of violations of human rights and international humanitarian law were committed by their forces and volunteer battalions ", - has said. Since mid-April last year, the Kiev authorities carried out in the East of Ukraine "special operation" to suppress the protest movement in the Donbass. Refers to a large number of dead and wounded among the civilian population and the destruction of houses and infrastructure. According to the UN at the end of August, victims of the conflict in Eastern Ukraine were about 7, 9 thousand People, at least 17, 6 thousand has Been damaged health. The settlement of the situation in the Donbas region is discussed, as well as among them, during meetings in Minsk the contact group, which Since September of last year had already taken 3 of the document, regulating the steps to de-escalate the conflict.