The prolonged bombing of a residential area in Kharkiv is a random attack that kills and injures hundreds of civilians, and they are therefore war crimes. This is what Amnesty International writes in a report on the war in Ukraine’s second largest city. This applies to attacks with both cluster munitions and other types of rockets or artillery without control, the organization claims. Cluster munitions and landmines Amnesty says they have evidence that Russian forces in Kharkiv have repeatedly used 9N210 and 9N235 cluster munitions, and that landmines have been dropped on the city. All these types of weapons are prohibited in an international agreement. Cluster munitions are bombs, grenades or warheads that open up in the air and hurl hundreds of smaller explosive devices over a large area. In a similar way, landmines are scattered. It combines “the worst possible properties of cluster munitions and anti-personnel mines”, according to Amnesty. They know it leads to major civilian casualties The continued use of such inaccurate weapons in densely populated areas is certain to lead to major civilian casualties. It can be counted as a direct attack on civilians, the report said, which was published on Monday. The report shows in detail how Russian forces have been attacking civilian areas in the city with 1.5 million inhabitants since the invasion began on 24 February. – People have been killed in their homes and in their streets, on playgrounds and in cemeteries, while they have been waiting for emergency aid or shopping for food and medicine. That victory advises Donatella Rovera of Amnesty International. 12,000 crimes The military government in Kharkiv states that 606 civilians have been killed and that 1248 have been wounded since the war began. Ukraine has launched an investigation into more than 12,000 possible cases of war crimes. Russia and Ukraine have not signed the international convention banning the use of cluster munitions and anti-personnel mines. But Amnesty emphasizes that “international humanitarian law prohibits arbitrary attacks and the use of arbitrary weapons.” Witnesses say Amnesty has investigated 41 Russian attacks that have killed at least 62 people and injured almost 200. A total of 160 people in Kharkiv were interviewed for two weeks between April and May. One of the witnesses Amnesty spoke to said that she lost both legs in an attack with cluster munitions. 57-year-old Olena Sorokina was outside her home when she was hit by shrapnel. She lost one leg immediately, while the other had to be amputated. Her neighbor was killed in the same attack. Daughter of the neighbor victory splinters burst their way through the building. – Even though mother had us indoors, she had been hit. She had no chance in the face of such an attack, says her daughter. READ AND:
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