International Committee of the red cross tried to convince both sides of the conflict in Ukraine not to place military targets in urban areas and residential neighborhoods, and to refrain from indiscriminate attacks, " according to the letter.
Kyiv authorities since April of conduct in the East of Ukraine military operation directed against dissatisfied with the February coup d'etat citizens of Donbass. Security forces used against militias and civilians tanks, heavy artillery, aviation, systems of volley fire. Also receives data about the fact that they used weapons of mass destruction and phosphorous bombs, which are banned by the Geneva conventions.
according to the UN, from mid-April to 10 August in Ukraine forcibly deprived of life, more than 2 thousand civilians, about 5 thousand wounded. In the Russian capital a special operation called punitive and evangelizing the world community to take All possible measures to stop the fire.
" All parties to the conflict can not, so far as may be, to place military objectives in densely populated areas or close to them. Prohibits indiscriminate attacks, and the use of weapons of indiscriminate effect, i.e. weapons, which it is impossible to distinguish between civilians and civilian objects on the one hand, and military objectives - from the back, " said the report, released by the ICRC.
numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. They were the response of local citizens to violent change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law granting Russian the status of regional language. The center of the Pro-Russian opposition-minded people with power in Kiev became the Donbass. About how developed the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine.
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