USING PROHIBITED WEAPONS AGAINST CIVILIAN POPULATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE

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Sources: Commissioner for Human Rights of the Verkhovna
Rada of Ukraine, Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine,
State Emergency Service of Ukraine, Ministry of Energy of
Ukraine, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, National
Police of Ukraine, City and Town Councils of Slavutych,
Kharkiv, Okhtyrka, Bucha, Sumy, Izium, Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration, Joint Forces Operation HQ
Summary update as of March 8

USING PROHIBITED WEAPONS AGAINST CIVILIAN POPULATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE
There are signs of the use of cluster munitions against civilians and
infrastructure in Ukraine. It should be noted that the use of multiple rocket
launchers and cluster munitions in residential areas can be regarded as an
indiscriminate attack and, accordingly, a war crime.
Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT): On the morning of March 7, the Russian
military fired cluster munitions from the multiple launch rocket system Smerch at
Mykolaiv, including its residential areas. At least one person was killed. Emergency service is demining the area after the shelling.
Kharkiv was also the target of a huge number of strikes with cluster
munitions. During the shelling on February 25, eyewitnesses saw a lot of
submunitions exploding in a large area. Affected area also includes residential
areas in the immediate vicinity of the children’s hospital.
On February 25, an artillery strike in the town of Okhtyrka killed several
people. As reported, there were children among them.
A Russian ballistic missile carrying a cluster munition struck just outside a
hospital in Vuhledar, Donetsk region, on February 24, 2022, (Human Rights
Watch). The attack killed four civilians and injured another 10, six of them
healthcare workers, and damaged the hospital, an ambulance, and civilian vehicles.
On Monday, February 28 the Russian military fired two packets of cluster
munitions at the village of Kiinka in the Chernihiv region. This was reported by
the Operational Command “North” .

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