Amnesty International, in her new report on the situation in Kharkov, published on Monday, June 13, accused Moscow of committing war crimes in Ukraine, indicating that hundreds of civilians were killed as a result of the use of cassette ammunition during the shelling of the city. Exposure from the report is given by the Russian BBC service.
“The repeated shelling of the residential areas of Kharkov are indistinguishable blows, as a result of which hundreds of civilians died and were injured, and as such are war crimes,” the report said in the second largest city in Ukraine, entitled “Everyone can die at any time. “
Amnesty argues that it has irrefutable evidence of multiple use by the Russian army of cassette bombs and anti -personnel mines prohibited by international conventions. Russia previously denied the fact of the use of prohibited ammunition, BBC notes. Cassette bombs are equipped with damaging elements, which, when undermined in the air, affect an area of hundreds of square meters.
Human rights activists say that the residential areas of Kharkov were subjected to shelling and bombing from the first day of the war, and in two months of continuous blows, they inflicted large -scale damage to the city with a population of 1.5 million people.