Examination of the Investigation Department of the Russian Federation provided that in the East of Ukraine, Kyiv by the security forces used Phosphorous weapons to attack civilian targets, said the head of Department on investigation of crimes related to the use of prohibited means and methods of warfare, SC of the Russian Federation Alexander Timanov.

" We carried out Examination, which found that shot not by firing points of the enemy, and on civilian targets ", said Rymanow in an interview to the newspaper, published on Thursday.

Phosphorous weapons banned by the Geneva Convention. In June militia said that the village Semenovka in the immediate vicinity of Slavyansk fired incendiary bombs. In mass media there were messages that applied under fire bombs were likely to be phosphorus munitions. Military expert on international humanitarian law Ivan Kotlyarov confirmed Last news , because it is really so. Later, the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S. Lavrov Century said that Russia is concerned about reports Of the use of the Ukrainian armed forces incendiary bombs.


numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. It has been the response of local citizens at the forcible change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law, giving the Russian language regional status. The center of confrontation between Pro-Russian-minded people with the government in Kiev has become the Donbass. About that, how is the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine.

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