AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky On Friday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) revealed new evidence that Ukrainian forces are indiscriminately using banned anti-personnel landmines against Russia’s troops. This comes one day after Ukrainian officials decried the ecological impacts of landmines found across 30 percent of the country’s land in a meeting attended by Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg.
In a statement , Human Rights Watch’s arms director Steve Goose called on Ukraine to keep a commitment made earlier this month to “duly study” the group’s report. Goose said: The Ukrainian government’s pledge to investigate its military’s apparent use of banned anti-personnel mines is an important recognition of its duty to protect civilians. A prompt, transparent, and thorough inquiry could have far-reaching benefits for Ukrainians both now and for future generations HRW published a report on the use of the weapons in January and wrote the Ukrainian government about its findings in a […]
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