© RIA Novosti / Evgeny BiyatovKiev violates international law, gets away with it.
Moscow has raised the issue of Kiev using heavy armaments in its special operations against independence supporters in eastern Ukraine at OSCE session, Russia's envoy Andrei Kelin said on Wednesday.
"The punitive operation led by Ukrainian forces reflects signs of an international human rights violation, in particular, of the Geneva convention of 1949," Kelin said.
"We drew attention to the tragic outcome of an operation in the Donbas [in eastern Ukraine],
a barbaric shelling of a building of the Luhansk local administration," he added.
He referred to reports claiming the Ukrainian military had used
exploding bullets, cluster bombs and artillery.
"There are reports on the use of inhumane weapons - exploding bullets, cluster bombs - and
the shelling of civilian targets in Ukraine. If they are confirmed, such acts have to be treated as war crimes. If it is proven that Right Sector
killed the wounded in a Krasnyi Lyman hospital, there are no words to justify such an action," Kelin said.
The envoy added that the latest report from the OSCE's Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine confirmed pro-Kiev forces had been using tanks, artillery and aircraft in its special operations.
"We asked a lot of questions, but Ukraine's permanent representative [to the OSCE]
gave no answers, aside from the usual attempts to shift responsibility to Russia," Kelin added.
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