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Ukraine war: Amnesty accuses Russia of ‘war crimes’ in Kharkiv

Residential area destroyed by a Russian bombing in Kharkiv, Ukraine [File: Ricardo Moraes/Reuters]

Russia has committed war crimes in northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, said Amnesty International, as the rights body accused Moscow of using banned cluster bombs and carrying out indiscriminate attacks killing hundreds of civilians.

“The repeated bombardments of residential neighbourhoods 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 published on Monday.

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