Government forces use cluster bombs in east Ukraine – Human Rights Watch

KYIV. Dec 3 (Interfax) – Human Rights Watch, an international human rights organization, claims that Ukraine is using cluster bombs in the hostilities in the Donbas region.

“As for the cases that we have investigated, there were clear indications that Ukraine is to blame for the use of this weapon,” Human Rights Watch’s Executive Director Kenneth Roth told a press conference in Kyiv on Wednesday.

“In particular, the impact area has a very characteristic appearance, and one can definitely say that cluster bombs were used,” he said.

“We were able to demonstrate that these bombs came from an area, which, at any rate, was controlled by the (Ukrainian) government forces. This can be proved by the fact that some of the bombs, shells failed to reach the target and remained in the area controlled by Ukraine,” he said.