11/04/2022 15:09

Commissioner: Rashists are using weapons of mass destruction against peaceful Ukrainians

In the Kharkiv region, the enemy is massively using ammunition prohibited by international conventions.

In the Synelnykivskyi district of the Dnipropetrovsk region a man picked up a cluster munition, which exploded.  Man died on a spot. This is the fourth death in the region due to such shells.

The racists fired several cluster bombs at the village on the border with Donetsk and Kherson regions.

In Dergachi, Yemtsi and Bezruky, particularly dangerous mines with delayed detonation have recently been discovered, which explode within hours, even if they have not been detonated by a collision with a target.

Ammunition with a plastic body, small in size, weighing about 1.5 kg.  Scattered in the courtyards of houses and streets.

The use of such weapons of mass destruction against civilians is a crime against humanity and a war crime and a violation of the 1949 Geneva Conventions. I appeal to the UN Commission for Investigation Human Rights Violations during Russia's Military Invasion of Ukraine  and the expert mission set up by the OSCE participating States under the Moscow Mechanism to take into account these facts of war crimes and crimes against humanity and violations of human rights in Ukraine.

I call on international partners to close the skies over Ukraine and provide weapons to fight the aggressor country of Russia!