Kharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine, with 1.5 million citizens, mostly Russian-speaking, has been under siege by Kremlin troops for several days.
A bbc team He has recorded an impressive report from there, along the border with Belarus: destroyed buildings, ghostly streets, dead soldiers frozen to the ground on the front line. The video that accompanies this information shows the images of this report, some of them extremely harsh.
Russia’s “indiscriminate” attacks investigated as war crimes
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has denounced that the Russian forces are perpetrating “indiscriminate” attacks on the civilian population in the framework of their military offensive on Ukraine, with “credible” information that even accounts for the use of cluster bombsand has warned of the possible commission of war crimes.
The UN has been pointing out for days that most of the victims derive from the use of wide-range explosive devices in populated areasin line with the denunciations that have also been expressed by the Ukrainian authorities, who have accused the Russian forces of perpetrating war crimes.
Among the objectives achieved are schools, nurseries and hospitals, with “devastating consequences”according to Throssell. At least 47 civilians lost their lives as a result of the bombing launched on March 3 on Chernigov, while this Wednesday a hospital was hit in Mariupol which, according to the UN, was “clearly identified and operational”, therefore against the Russian version.
In addition, four civilians died on February 24, the day the invasion began, due to the explosion of a cluster munition in a hospital in Vuhledar.
The UN also suspects the use of this type of weaponry in various areas of Kharkov, where at least nine civilians would have lost their lives. Cluster bombs are particularly damaging to the civilian population due to the large area they initially affect and the possibility of unexploded ordnance remaining.
Source: Lasexta
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