Red Cross inspectors go to Donbas to gather evidence of war crimes
MOSCOW. Feb 10 (Interfax) - The Moscow office of the International Committee of the Red Cross has sent inspectors to southeastern Ukraine to gather evidence of war crimes committed in the war-torn region.
The goal of the inspection mission is to meet with local residents and gather evidence about the war crimes committed, including killings, extermination raids, shell attacks against civilians, political, racial and religious reprisals, tortures of captives and other crimes within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, says a statement posted on the ICRC's website on Tuesday.
ICRC inspectors will also visit detention facilities for POWs, as well as orphanages and old people's homes.
Representatives of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics have blamed Kyiv on many occasions for using cluster and phosphorus ammunition, and for shelling residential districts, hospitals and schools, the charges Ukraine has vehemently denied.