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The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission confirmed that during the first month of the war in 2022, the Russian military used cluster weapons in Ukrainian settlements at least 16 times. [4] At the end of March, the head of the UN Human Rights Council, Michelle Bachelet, reported at least 24 cases since the invasion began.
The use of incendiary weapons in the Russo-Ukrainian War was first remarked in Sloviansk in June 2014; [ 14] followed late July 2014 around eastern Ukraine, [ 15] then in August at Ilovaisk, [ 14] and between Oleksandrivka and Chumaky in November, [ 16] all battlegrounds of the war in Donbas (2014–2022) .
On 2 April 2023, Russian pro-war military blogger 'Vladlen Tatarsky' was assassinated in a bombing in St Petersburg. The bomb, hidden inside a statuette and handed to him as a gift, exploded during an event he was hosting in a café. A Russian woman was later sentenced to 27 years in prison for the attack. [303]
A video circulated on social media from official and unofficial accounts shows about 100 Russian soldiers being taken prisoner in Kursk as Ukraine’s forces push deeper into Russia with surprise ...
On Feb. 28, Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States, Oksana Markarova, accused Russia of also using vacuum bombs, controversial thermobaric weapons, in its invasion.
April 24, 2023 at 1:06 AM. Thousands have been evacuated from their homes in the Russian city of Belgorod after an undetonated bomb was found. Over 3,000 people were evacuated on Saturday two days ...
In 2017 the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has reported that Russia used cluster and incendiary weapons in Syria, constituting the war crime of indiscriminate attacks in a civilian populated area. [16] OHCHR also found Russia guilty of war crimes in Ukraine in 2022 [17] and 2023. [18]
February 28, 2022 at 5:36 AM. Amnesty International has condemned Russia’s reported use of cluster munitions in Ukraine, saying an attack on a pre-school “may constitute a war crime”. The ...