- Russia has killed hundreds of civilians in Ukraine's second largest city, Kharkiv, using indiscriminate shelling and widely banned cluster munitions, according to new research by Amnesty International. Amnesty says it has found evidence of Russian forces repeatedly using cluster bombs, as well as "scatterable" munitions - rockets that eject smaller mines that explode later at timed intervals. Russia has previously denied using cluster munitions in Ukraine and insisted that Russian forces have only struck military targets. The BBC visited five separate impact sites in residential neighbourhoods in Kharkiv and saw evidence of a distinctive, symmetrical spalling effect associated with cluster munitions.
A cluster munition is a form of air-dropped or ground-launched explosive weapon that releases or ejects smaller submunitions. Commonly, this is a cluster bomb that ejects explosive bomblets that are designed to kill personnel and destroy vehicles. Other cluster munitions are designed to destroy
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UN News Russian attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine could be a war crime: UN rights office
Russia says President @ZelenskyyUa’s demand for them to withdraw behind the February 24th line is ‘not serious’. This proves Russia remains focused on war, not diplomacy, and sends a clear message to the world: Russia’s path to negotiating table lays through battleground defeats.
— Dmytro Kuleba (@DmytroKuleba) June 8, 2022
Doing a "Scholz" = Continually promise something without ever actually having any intention of doing it. https://t.co/Z3IodMGhgf
— Anders Östlund (@andersostlund) June 9, 2022
NEW: When the @OSCE monitoring mission abruptly left Ukraine in the wake of Russia's invasion, it haphazardly left behind virtually more than 400 Ukrainian staffers. The consequences were disastrous.
— Ben Pauker (@benpauker) June 10, 2022
from @ChristopherJM @StLiechtenstein https://t.co/t3DoETtI0d via @politico
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