HRW: military of Ukraine responsible for the deaths of the inhabitants of Lugansk
Human rights defenders Human Rights Watch (HRW) believe that the Ukrainian military army responsible for indiscriminate use of artillery and missiles within the Ukrainian city of Luhansk, and at the same time, the self-defense forces responsible for the use of guns outside the city, according to a report published in the first day of the week.
" Indirect evidence show about the fact that the existing military units responsible for most attacks, which investigated the report, and that the militias responsible for several attacks in the suburbs, " say the Defenders.
The researcher with the OLE Solvang (Ole Solvang), which is located in Lugansk, informs about the unacceptability of such actions." the use of explosive weapons such extensive action, civilians are completely unacceptable and practice steadily leads to civilian casualties, " informs Solvang.
according to human rights defenders, may in Lugansk lost his life about 300 civilians, most of them in the artillery attacks, mortar and rocket attack." Between both sides of the conflict were used Grad rockets, " Tornado " and cluster munitions plant " Hurricane ", - informs HRW. Human rights activists emphasize that the high caliber and lack of guidance accuracy of these instruments makes it difficult to separate military and civilian targets ". The report emphasizes that workers morgues and hospitals said the representatives of the organization that the vast majority of civilians lost their lives or were injured in the result of shrapnel injuries." 99% of civilians who have come to us, lost his life from injuries by shrapnel, " said HRW medical specialist from Lugansk Anatoly Jurievich.
Kyiv authorities since April of conduct in the East of Ukraine military operation directed against dissatisfied with the February coup d'etat of residents of Donbas. According to the latest information from the UN, from mid April to Ukraine forcibly deprived of life, more than 2 and a half thousand civilians, about six thousand wounded.
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