War in Ukraine: BBC was collecting taxes in Kharkiv
- Joel Gunther
- Kharkov, Ukraine
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The human rights organization Amnesty International said that during the shelling of Kharkov, Russia widely seized cassette income banned in many countries of the world, as a result of which hundreds of events took place around the world.
Amnesty International report report, including 9H210/9H235. Cluster, or cluster, charges, when detonated, release or eject smaller submunitions that start with charges at intervals.
BBC correspondents locate various locations in Kharkiv residential areas that have been shelled and find symmetrical traces of explosions: characteristic signs of manifestation on the surface, which are used in the use of cluster attacks. We watch them watch cassette footprints.
“These are cassette magazine marks, these are classic signs,” said Mark Hizni, a senior researcher with the Armed Forces Division at Human Rights Watch. “One image shows signs of stabilizer fletching from one of the submunitions.”
CCTV footage broadcast by the BBC from local residents shows successive breaks of local residents grouped in a small area. It’s a hallmark of cluster weapon submunitions, says Hamish de Bretton Gordon, a retired British Army colonel and weapons expert at the University of Cambridge.
Cassette income detonates in the park, scattering smaller charges that disperse throughout the area, potentially endangering civilians.
Submunitions also often do not explode at the moment of shelling, actually turning into landmines, and then turn into discrimination for many years. More than 120 countries have signed a treaty banning the use of cassette entertainment. However, Russia and Ukraine (as well as a number of other countries, including the US, China, Israel, India and fruits) did not join this.
At the site of one hit by cassette ticket offices in the Industrial District of Kharkiv, next to a multi-storey residential building, there are characteristic traces of clearly visible investigators behind three third-party playgrounds.
The wife of a local resident, Ivan Litvinenko, Oksana, was seriously injured as a result of the blow and later died.
Litvinenko, 40, told the BBC that he and his five-year-old daughter were walking in the playground at the time of the shooting. Their 14-year-old son comes to their apartment. “Suddenly I saw a flash and heard the first explosion,” says Litvinenko. “I grabbed my daughter and pressed her against a tree. My wife was five meters away and just fell.”
Shrapnel hit 41-year-old Oksana in the back, chest and stomach, pierced the lungs and damaged the spine. For health reasons, she was in intensive care for two months and died from the proceeds of injuries and diabetes. “Doctors operated on her several times, but her body could not stand it,” he said.
Describing the strike, Litvinenko said he saw “a series of explosions, many bombs, one after the other.” Two residents who are in their apartments at the time of the shelling also told the BBC that they heard successive sounds of explosions. “Explosions were heard for several minutes,” said 26-year-old Danya Volynets. “When we went outside, I saw cars on fire. Probably everything around was on fire.”
53-year-old nurse Tatyana Akhaeva during the blow occurred at her house. “Suddenly, there was an explosion, like firecrackers, there were a lot of them, it was just everywhere,” Amnesty said. “We rushed to the ground and found shelter. Our neighbor’s son Artem Shevchenko died on the spot, he was 16 years old. There was a wound about a centimeter.
Doctors from the Kharkiv-origin hospital said that the case when they were delivered after the shelling of the children’s area had penetrating wounds to the abdomen, chest and back. Due to the appearance, metal fragments were recovered, once of the type of cluster submunitions 9N210 / 9N235. According to Amnesty International, as a result of the strike on the Industrial District of Kharkiv, there was a 35-fold disaster among residents and 35 people were injured. Accessibility area is about 700 square meters.
In another residential building, near Garibaldi Street in Kharkiv, as a result of an incident at the entrance, two elderly women and another seriously injured. Traces of cassette magazines were observed around the doorway and on the path nearby.
At the time of the break, Tatyana Belova and Elena Sorokina were sitting on a bench at the entrance. They hurried inside, but the second construction exploded right at the entrance, killing Belova and another woman named Tatyana, who was with them. As a result of the explosion, Sorokina lost both legs.
“The explosions happened one after another,” said 61-year-old local resident Nadezhda Kravchuk, who disappeared at that time in the house. She lost both legs.
Over the course of two weeks, the organization investigated 41 strikes in Kharkiv that left at least 62 civilians dead and 196 injured, Amnesty International reported. Witnesses revealed that the victims of cassette magazines and unguided rockets were world markets shopping, queuing for food aid, or simply walking down the street.
“These weapons must not be used under any circumstances,” Amnesty senior adviser Donatella Rovera told the BBC.
Russia cannot claim to be unaware of the consequences of wrongdoing.
Earlier, Russia said about the use of cassette magazines in Ukraine and that the Russian force strikes only for military consequences.
Representative of the Kharkiv Regional Communications Administration AmnestyInternationalthat from February 24 to April 28, 606 civilians were killed as a result of infection, and 1248 were injured, about 70% of them in Kharkiv.
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