Branded badges of ammunition in the tech of a junta car and an infantry park in Járkiv.
Russia has used civilian targets in the city of Járkiv, in northern Ukraine, to use indiscriminate bombardment and ammunition in weapons, including weapons of mass destruction, to launch a new Amnesty International investigation.
Amnesty states that Hague has found evidence that Russian forces use it repeatedly racimo bombs 9N210 / 9N235, as well as “dispersible” ammunition, which explodes with small pieces of mines that explode at regular intervals.
The BBC visited several places in Járkiv’s residential barriers and found evidence of a distinctive effect associated with racist ammunition. This is a sample image of the sites a three experts in weaponswhich makes it clear that their impacts are consistent with the controversial weapons.
“These are impacts of ammunition in racism, it’s one firm firm“, says Mark Hizney, chief investigator of the Human Rights Watch weapons division, a fine-tuning organization.”
Images courtesy of the BBC for one resident in one of the localities it exemplifies successive and group detonations, “a very strong indicator of the submissiveness of a racist weapon”, said Hamish by Bretton Gordon, exorcist of the British air force and expert in the arms of the University of Cambridge.
The pattern of scattering light due to the impact of the rocket launchers, located on a residential barrier in Járkiv
A controversial weapon
Las ammunition in racimo son controvertidas because it detonates in the air and releases a group of more small bombs that indiscriminately cause a great deal of damage, which can be considered illegal by civilians.
Most blown grenade detonating bombs when impacted, representing a amenaza for the coming years.
More than 120 countries have signed a treaty that prohibits the use of this type of weapon, both in Russia and Ukraine with signatures.
There is also a barrier in Járkiv
In one of the places where two hubs have an apparatus ataque with ammunition in racimo in Járkiv, in the Industrialnyi barrier, the effect of deprivation is visible through an urbanization and an infantile park.
Ivan Litvynyenko’s play, Oksana, gravely herida result in assassination attempt Murio.
Litvynyenko, 40 years old, told the BBC that the pareja caminaba por el patio with its cinco shadow which cayeron las ammunition. At the age of 14 he established himself as the owner of the apartment.
“De repente vi un destello “I heard the first explosion,” said Litvynyenko. “I was able to build one metro and walk”.
A junta impact site and an infantry park where Ivan Litvynyenko’s space was fired.
Oksana, 41 years old, fue alcanzada por una metralla which penetrates into the shoulder, pelvis and abdomen, perforating the lungs and extending into the column.
Stuvo en intense intensities Durante dos meses, hasta el domingo, cuando murió por complications de sus heridas y la diabetes, dijo Litvynyenko. “The doctors operated on the varies only, but their skin did not swell,” he said, trying to escape death.
To describe the situation, Litvynyenko says that “one” series of explosions“Muchas bomas una tras otra”.
Other residents who establish their dento apartments at the time of the incident, the BBC reported that it had heard successive detonations. “Podías oír blasts lasted about minutes”, said Danya Volynets, 26 years old. “Cuando salimos, pude ver los autos en llamas. Parecía que todo estaba en llamas”.
Tetiana Ahayeva, a 53-year-old nurse, set up a parade in front of her cayeron’s edition ammunition. “Hubo un sonido repentino de petardos per todas partes, muchos, por todas partes”, dijo a Amnistía.
“We did not leave the room and we did not find it refugio. The shadow of our only son, a 16-year-old son of Artem Shevchenko, is in the act. Only a centimeter of anchor in the oven. “You only have the destroyer frame and a metal bar in the pier.”
Oksana Litvynyenko with her shadow. Oksana results in gravely herring in April and dumping wall.
Doctors at Járkiv Central Hospital who treat victims who have been admitted to the hospital, commenting that they are dying penetrating hernia in the abdomen, pelvis and spleenand recovers fragments of metal that coincide with the types of curtains found in 9N210 / 9N235 ammunition.
Death of civilians
Según Amnestyat the same time the Industrialnyi barricade murmured between 9 civilians and 35 Fueron Herods, detonating within a range of 700 square meters.
In another residential area, in the area of the beautiful Haribaldi of Járkiv, a ammunition cayó en la entrada, y mató a dos ancianas e hirió gravemente a otra.
“Hubo a series of explosions una tras otra”, said resident Nadia Kravchuk, 61 years old. “Salí y vi a un mujer acostada boca abajo ya otra mujer acostada aquí, y junto a ellas estaba Lena, que perdió ambas piernas. Ella estaba gritando: ‘Perdí mi pierna‘”.
Tetiana Bielova and Olena Sorokina set up benches in a firebox to explode ammunition. Levantaron para entrar al edificio pero una second ammunition cayó justo en la entrada, matando a Bielova ya otra mujer llamada Tetiana que estaba con ellos. Sorokina parted ambassadors in the explosion.
Nadia Kravchuk observes the many causes caused by ammunition that measures one of the two vehicles.
Durante an investigation of the semanos camp, Amnesty register 41 ataques in Járkivdonde al menos 62 civil murieron y 196 resultaron heridos, informó la organización.
Sus investigators find evidence of ammunition en racimo y cohetes no guiados that mataron to persons who establish firm, hacking cola to reclaim ayuda alimentaria or complementary walking by calle.
“Estas armas nunca deben usarse“, said the BBC’s Donatella Rovera, Amnesty International’s main respondent. “With the weapons of war, there is a devastating effect and cause deaths and lesions among civilians.”
The use of weapons “equivalent to deliberately attacking a civiles“, says Rovera.” Russia can not affirm that it does not know the effect of this type of weapon. “In the decision of usarlos muestra an absolute despair by the civilian life”, affirmó.
Russia has neglected the use of anti-RPG ammunition in Ukraine and insists that its only strongholds are targeting military targets.
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