'Launching indiscriminate attacks that kill or injure civilians constitutes a war crime.'
Amnesty International on Friday released findings from an on-the-ground investigation showing Russia's"siege tactics" in multiple Ukrainian cities amount to violations of international law."A defining feature of these cruel sieges,"Amnesty International's Crisis Response Program director Joanne Mariner,"is Russia's relentless indiscriminate attacks, which cause utterly devastating harm over time.
Russia's attacks have also brought about"denial of basic services" to civilians, according to the investigation. Amnesty points to evidence of strikes on TV towers in the cities of Kharkiv and Izium that disrupted services and thus blocked vital information to residents.The research includes testimony from an unnamed person running a bomb shelter holding 300 people in Saltivka. The person told Amnesty that"the majority are older, fragile," and have"asthma, diabetes.
A 39-year-old diabetic told Amnesty how his apartment building in Kharkiv was hit with Smerch rockets. He hurt his foot as he ran and tried to escape shelling while out to obtain food. Russia's use of cluster bombs and other"inherently indiscriminate weapons" such as so-called 'dumb' bombs and firings from Multiple Launch Rocket Systems on highly populated civilian areas are destroying civilian infrastructure, said Amnesty, and may constitute violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law.
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