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Ukraine violates the laws of warfare and endangers the lives of civilians by placing military equipment and weapons in schools and hospitals. This is stated in the TASS report with reference to the report of the human rights organization Amnesty International released on Thursday.
“We have documented that the Armed Forces of Ukraine put civilians in a risky situation and violated the laws of war during actions in crowded places,” said Agnes Kallamar, Secretary General of Amnesty International.
The report reports on cases recorded by human rights defenders of attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine from residential buildings and their placement of weapons on the territories of civil infrastructure facilities in 19 cities and settlements of Ukraine, including in the Donbass, Kharkiv and Mykolaiv regions. At the same time, as noted in the report, the Ukrainian military leadership did not organize the evacuation of residents from buildings in order to minimize losses from a possible retaliatory strike by the Russian Armed Forces.
Amnesty International experts come to the conclusion that 22 of the 29 schools they visited in the southeastern regions of Ukraine housed either the personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, or military equipment and weapons. For example, it is emphasized that in the city of Odessa, the Ukrainian military deployed armored vehicles directly in densely populated residential areas, and in the city of Bakhmut (Artemovsk), a military base was set up in the university building.