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Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

Amnesty Accuses Russia of War Crimes in Kharkiv, Killing Hundreds

A destroyed school near the center of Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, February 28, 2022. (Sergey Bobok/AFP)

Amnesty International on Monday accused Russia of war crimes in Ukraine, saying attacks on Kharkiv, many using banned cluster bombs, had killed hundreds of civilians.

"The repeated bombardments of residential neighborhoods in Kharkiv are indiscriminate attacks which killed and injured hundreds of civilians, and as such constitute war crimes," the rights group said in a report on Ukraine's second biggest city.

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