During the truce, Ukraine used cluster bombs on the cities of Donbass - The New York Times

New York - Kyiv, October 21 (PolitNavigator, Vasily Ablyazimov) - A Swiss employee of the International Committee of the Red Cross was killed by the Ukrainian army's use of banned cluster munitions in Donbas cities in early October during the ceasefire, the influential New York Times wrote on Tuesday.

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The newspaper bases its conclusions on interviews with local residents, photographs of unexploded warheads containing cluster munitions, and the findings of the international human rights organization Human Rights Watch. According to the New York Times, prohibited ammunition was used at least twice - on October 5 and 9 in the very center of the million-strong city of Donetsk.

The places where the missiles fell clearly indicate that they were fired by the Ukrainian army, the Americans are sure. The shelling on October 5th and 9th killed at least six civilians and one Swiss Red Cross worker. The murder of a Red Cross employee during the so-called truce caused a big scandal in international circles.

The army's use of cluster munitions, which contain small, low-caliber bomblets that can affect a vast area, the publication writes, could also lend credence to Moscow's claim that the Ukrainian national government is actually conducting a punitive operation against its own citizens in Donbas.

“It is now clear that cluster munitions are being used indiscriminately in populated areas, particularly in the early October attacks in the city of Donetsk,” Mark Hiznay, a senior fellow at Human Rights Watch and a weapons expert, told the newspaper. “The military logic of these attacks is incomprehensible, and these attacks must be stopped because they endanger a huge number of civilians,” the expert is confident.

Press officers of the Ukrainian military, the publication writes, denied that their troops used cluster munitions during the conflict in Donetsk in early October.