Initial US assessment is missile crashed into Kramatorsk . train station was a short-range ballistic missile fired from a Russian position inside Ukraine, a senior US defense official said on Friday.
On Friday, Ukraine accused Russian forces of indiscriminate use of cluster munitions in Friday’s attack that killed at least 50 people.
Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk region’s military administration, said a Russian Tochka-U missile armed with a small bomb hit civilians evacuated from the area.
Russian forces are accused of regularly using cluster munitions against civilian targets in Ukraine. Last week, the UN Human Rights Watch in Ukraine said it had received credible allegations that the Russian armed forces had used cluster munitions in populated areas at least 24 times. .
Such attacks “can lead to war crimes,” UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has also confirmed Russia’s use of cluster munitions, including at least three cases in the city of Mykolaiv, southern Ukraine on March 7, 11 and 13, 2022.
Cluster munitions pose a distinct threat to civilians by randomly scattering submunitions, munitions, or munitions over a large area. Bombs that do not explode on impact often become de facto landmines, prolonging post-conflict damage.
In 2008, more than 100 countries in the United Nations signed on to ban cluster munitions, according to the United Nations website. Ukraine and Russia did not sign the agreement.
