if this was written in RT it would be called russian state propaganda
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Ukraine Used Cluster Bombs, Evidence Indicates
By ANDREW ROTHOCT. 20, 2014. The New York Times
(not the full article just the parts i thought were important)
βDONETSK, Ukraine β The Ukrainian Army appears to have fired cluster munitions on several occasions into the heart of Donetsk, unleashing a weapon banned in much of the world into a rebel-held city with a peacetime population of more than one million
Sites where rockets fell in the city on Oct. 2 and Oct. 5 showed clear signs that cluster munitions had been fired from the direction of army-held territory β¦
The two attacks wounded at least six people and killed a Swiss employee of the International Red Cross based in Donetsk.
β¦ The use of cluster bombs by the pro-Western government could complicate efforts to reunite the country, as residents of the east have grown increasingly bitter over the Ukrainian Armyβs tactics to oust pro-Russian rebels.
βItβs pretty clear that cluster munitions are being used indiscriminately in populated areas, particularly in attacks in early October in Donetsk city,β said Mark Hiznay, senior arms researcher at Human Rights Watch, in emailed comments after the report was completed. βThe military logic behind these attacks is not apparent, and these attacks should stop, because they put too many civilians at risk.β
Further, in a report released late Monday, Human Rights Watch says the rebels have most likely used cluster weapons in the conflict as well, a detail that The New York Times could not independently verify.
On the morning of Oct. 5, Boris V. Melikhov, 37, was chopping wood outside his house in the Gladkovka neighborhood of Donetsk when he heard the loud clap of an explosion from the street.
His first sensation was βa strong push in the back,β and he sprawled onto the grass. More explosions followed, showering Mr. Melikhov with dust and dirt. Unable to stand, he crawled toward a spigot in the garden, bleeding profusely and desperate for water.
βI felt the blood running down my back, down my leg,β he recalled in an interview last week from his bed in a hospital, where his uncle took him after the attack. Doctors there found several identical metal fragments in his leg, chest, shoulder and hand.
The same morning, sunflower farmers near Novomikhailovka, a small village about 20 miles southwest of Mr. Melikhovβs house, saw rockets sailing almost directly overhead toward Donetsk. Local people said in interviews that the army had been launching Uragan rockets from there for more than a week.
βTrust me, when it is day after day after day, you get to know your Grad launches from your Uragan launches,β said one farmer, who asked not to be named for fear of retribution for discussing Ukrainian military positions.
In Donetsk, doctors in a city hospital and morgue said they had found cluster-munitions fragments in several patients, including Mr. Melikhov, whose spine was nicked by one on Oct. 5. He was lucky not to have been paralyzed, but the injury made it very painful to sit, stand or lie flat, he said.
βI see it as the senseless destruction of the southeast,β he said of the attack. βThereβs something wrong in their head.ββ
