Amnesty International accuses Russia of 'war crimes' in Ukraine, saying attacks on Kharkiv city, many using banned cluster bombs, had killed hundreds of civilians, as Moscow’s offensive enters its 110 days
Monday, June 13, 2022Amnesty International has accused Russia of "war crimes" in Ukraine, saying attacks on Kharkiv, many using banned cluster bombs, had killed hundreds of civilians.
"The repeated bombardments of residential neighbourhoods in Kharkiv are indiscriminate attacks which killed and injured hundreds of civilians, and as such constitute war crimes," the rights group said in a report on Ukraine's second biggest city. "This is true both for the strikes carried out using cluster as well as those conducted using other types of unguided rockets and unguided artillery shells ," it said, adding, "The continued use of such inaccurate explosive weapons in populated civilian areas, in the knowledge that they are repeatedly causing large numbers of civilian casualties, may even amount to directing attacks against the civilian population.
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