Berlin – The bloody war of aggression once morest Ukraine has been raging since February 24. Kremlin despot Vladimir Putin (69) bombed residential buildings, raped, tortured and killed civilians. The atrocities and war crimes don’t stop.
Amnesty International is now denouncing the use of banned munitions: according to the human rights organization, Russian troops have fired at residential areas in the eastern Ukrainian region of Kharkiv with the internationally banned cluster munitions, killing hundreds of civilians.
Cluster munitions are rockets or bombs that burst while still in the air over the target, releasing a large number of small explosive devices.
“In Kharkiv, people were killed in their homes and on the streets while they visited playgrounds with their children, commemorated their relatives in cemeteries, while queuing for aid deliveries or while shopping,” according to research by the Human Rights Agency published in Berlin on Monday. Organization.
The human rights organization accused Russia of repeatedly using cluster munitions and unguided missiles in residential areas and playgrounds since the start of the war of aggression in Ukraine. “Those responsible for these attacks must be brought to justice and the injured and the families of the victims must be compensated,” said Janine Uhlmannsiek, Amnesty International’s Europe and Central Asia expert in Germany.
Conversely, according to Amnesty International, Ukrainian troops often launch attacks from residential areas, putting the lives of local civilians at risk. “This violates international humanitarian law, but in no way justifies the repeated indiscriminate attacks by Russian troops,” the human rights organization said.
According to Amnesty International, Russia used cluster munitions in Kharkiv at the beginning of March, according to witnesses who agree. The US also accuses the Kremlin of using it.
On April 8, the regime shelled a refugee train station in Kramatorsk (Donetsk region) with cluster munitions, killing 60 civilians.
Photo: ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP
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Cluster bombs are outlawed in most countries around the world. More than a hundred countries already belong to a convention once morest cluster munitions that came into force in 2010, including Germany. However, Russia and Ukraine have not signed the agreement.
