HRW denounces that a cluster bomb killed 4 people in Ukraine hospital

The human rights defense organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) denounced this Friday a cluster bomb attack on a hospital in the Ukrainian town of Vuhledar, in the pro-independence zone of Donetsk, which left four civilians dead and another 10 wounded, six of them they sanitary.

HRW He said he confirmed the information through telephone interviews with a hospital doctor and a representative of the center, Central City Hospital, as well as photographs of two of the deceased.

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The organization also stated that other snapshots posted on social media or sent to the hospital show the remains of one of the weapons apparently used in the attack, a Tochka 9M79 ballistic missile with a 9N123 cluster warhead.

“This cruel attack has killed and injured civilians, and damaged a hospital,” HRW weapons director Steve Goose said in a statement, calling on Russian forces to stop using cluster munitions now. “stop illegal attacks with weapons that kill and maim indiscriminately.”

The organization explained that an international treaty prohibits the use of this type of weapon, which typically explodes in the air and sends tens or hundreds of small bombs that spread over a space similar to that of a football field.

⚡️Ballistic missile strike outside hospital in Vuhledar in #ukraine killing at least two civilians is verified by Amnesty Evidence Lab. Hospitals are protected under international humanitarian law, ballistic missiles should never be used in populated areas. https://t.co/VPfoOCZ1Gh

— Amnesty International (@amnesty) February 24, 2022

Added to this is the fact that these small projectiles sometimes remain unexploded, later acting as anti-personnel mines.

Although cluster bombs were banned in a UN resolution adopted in 2008 and which came into effect in 2010, neither Ukraine nor Russia are among the 110 countries that have ratified it.

In addition to the four deaths – two women and two men between 34 and 65 years old – and the ten wounded, the projectile left damage to an ambulance and three civilian cars.

According to HRW investigations, cluster bombs have already been used by both the Ukrainian government and armed groups supported by Russia in the clashes in eastern Ukraine between July 2014 and February 2015. EFE

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