FM: West must get from Kiev to stop the use of cluster munitions
Russia advocates the West to influence Kiev, that he has ceased to use cluster munitions, the Use of which is a crime, said the official representative of the Russian foreign Ministry Alexander Lukashevich. " the use of cluster munitions in densely populated and in the settlements is very gross infractions of international humanitarian law and is qualified military lawlessness, " Lukashevich RIA " Novosti "." We are in different formats urge the international community, including the United States of America and the European Union to exert pressure on Kiev to get him unconditional waiver of any future use of cluster munitions against civilians in South-Eastern regions of Ukraine ", - said Lukashevich. Lukashevich also focused on the recent report of Human Rights Watch." It (the report of Human Rights Watch about the application of Kiev cluster munitions) reveals the barbaric essence of punitive action. The use of cluster munitions in the settlements is a serious infractions of international humanitarian law and is qualified military lawlessness, " Lukashevich TASS. Remember, on Tuesday, HRW released a report that said that the Ukrainian Military used cluster munitions in populated areas of Donetsk in early October 2014. However, the speaker of the national security and defense Council of Ukraine Andriy Lysenko said that the Ukrainian Military is not used in the Donbass cluster munitions, and was subjected to the alleged use of prohibited ammunition militias. Then in HRW stressed that gathered evidence that cluster munitions were used by the Ukrainian law enforcers, not the militia. Later, the representative of the Russian foreign Ministry on issues of human rights, democracy and rule of law Konstantin Dolgov said the HRW findings about the use of cluster bombs Ukrainian military show on the punitive nature conducted by the Kiev operation.