Human Rights Watch: both sides used cluster bombs in Ukraine

Human Rights Watch has accused the Ukrainian troops in the use of cluster bombs during the shelling of Donetsk in early October. The report of the human rights organization said that more than a dozen towns in the east of Ukraine, including Kiev, were shelled with cluster bombs at the beginning of this October.

According to human rights activists, the BBC reports, in each case it is impossible to clearly identify which one of the parties to the conflict will be liable for the use of weapons prohibited by international conventions. But there is evidence that in some cases the cluster ammunition was used by government troops. 

Representatives of Human Rights Watch said that they saw unexploded cluster bombs both on the territory controlled by the separatists, and in the territories under the control of government forces. 

At a briefing in Kiev the representative of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Andriy Lysenko denied the findings of the HRW report. According to Lysenko, "Ukrainian troops did not shell residential areas." In his view, human rights activists became victims of false information. 

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