The government of the self-proclaimed Donetsk national Republic (DND) accuses Kiev in violation of the Geneva conventions and war crimes, said on the first day of the week at the meeting of Ministers DND Deputy Prime Minister on social policy Aleksandr Karaman.

" Geneva conventions require parties involved in the conflict to distinguish between civilians and the direct participants of military actions in order to ensure the protection of civilians and civilian objects, " he read out Karaman the text of the appeal of the Council of Ministers DND.

" Denied the attacks on the civilian population in General and on individual civilians ", - he reminded.

" Kyiv regime violates legal standards, which is confirmed by the destruction of 60% of such cities as Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Dzerzhinsk, Horlivka, debaltseve, Shakhtersk. They were and are subject to daily of mortar fire, tank guns, artillery systems, as well as among them, systems of volley fire, rocket and bomb strikes from the air ", - stressed in the government of the unrecognized Republic.

according to the information voiced by the Deputy Prime Minister DND, only in the Bureau of forensic medical examination of Donetsk delivered the bodies of nearly six hundred dead from gunshot and shrapnel damage. Loss of peaceful residents in other cities of Donetsk region Aleksandr Karaman assessed at " several thousand " - DND States that most of them were buried without the conclusion of a medical examiner or coroner ".


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 the local population 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. According to the data gathered by the mission of the Commissariat of the United Nations on human rights and the world health organization, from mid-April to 26 July in Ukraine killed 1129 civilians, 3442 wounded.

Donetsk is now a daily subjected to artillery shelling. Most affected Northern areas of the city (Kiev), adjacent to the airport, as well as South - Petrovsky and Kirov. These are the areas adjacent to the positions of the Ukrainian security forces, it is planned that here preparing their intrusion into the city. Reportedly Donetsk city hall, daily from artillery fire is dying from one to six civilians, many of the wounded. The night of the first day of the week in Donetsk also went under the heavy cannons. About that, how is the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine.

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