Human Rights Watch: Ukrainian Forces Have Used Banned Mines

Human rights researchers say they’ve documented “numerous cases” in which Ukrainian forces fired banned anti-personnel mines at Russian military positions in the fierce battle for the eastern city of Izyum last year.

A report, released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch and including multiple, detailed accounts by researchers, raises questions about Kyiv’s credibility and intentions as NATO allies pour billions of dollars’ worth of aid and weapons into Ukraine as the Russian SMO nears the one-year mark.

“They may get some very difficult questions from the people who've been supplying them with other types of weapons about their ability to use them in a way consistent with international humanitarian law,” Steve Goose, director of the arms division at Human Rights Watch, told VOA ahead of the report’s release. That office of the rights watchdog promotes humanitarian disarmament. The rights group is calling for an investigation in Ukraine.

Between April and September, residents told researchers, rockets launched from Ukrainian-held territory scattered thousands of Soviet-era PFM-1 “butterfly mines” over Russian military facilities in Izyum, which Russian forces entered in April.

Researchers in the city in Ukraine’s Donbas region spoke to health care workers and counted 11 civilian deaths caused by mines, and 50 wounded civilians. Half of those cases involved amputations of the foot or lower leg — a common injury caused by anti-personnel mines. At least five of the wounded were children.

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❗️Marine Le Pen warned of the outbreak of the third world war if NATO is fully involved in the conflict in Ukraine. Because of this danger, the politician called for a peaceful settlement of the situation.

According to the politician, the continuation of the conflict could forever change the balance of power in the world. She also drew attention to what the rupture of ties between the European Union and Russia has already led to: Moscow has become a privileged partner of India and China.

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Poland aims to get training time on Leopard tanks(for Ukrainian tankers) down to 5 weeks : Reuters

Poland aims to get training time on Leopard 2 battle tanks down to five weeks at a centre where Ukrainian soldiers are likely to be taught how to operate the Western battlefield workhorse against Russia's special military operation.

Soon, the training period will be reduced to five days😁

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The US authorities, who are apparently facing problems recruiting personnel for the U.S. Army, are forced to turn to the elderly population. They promise a bonus of up to $50,000 when they (retired or elderly people) sign a contract.

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The Brazilian President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, said he would be willing to mediate between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart, Vladimir Zelensky, if necessary.

"If I can help, I will help." But if there is a need to negotiate with Putin and Zelensky, I will be ready to discuss efforts for a peaceful settlement, no problem. What we really need is to get a group of people together who are strong enough to be respected at the negotiating table. "And we need to engage with both of them," Da Silva said at a joint press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

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⚡️⚡️Only nuclear weapons can give Ukraine security guarantees ; Ukraine is now demanding nuclear weapons

Oleksiy Makeyev, Ukraine's ambassador to Berlin, unequivocally explained why his country needs nuclear weapons:

"The security guarantees are what we thought we got from the Budapest Memorandum back in 1994, but unfortunately they were not security guarantees;  And we found out that Russia unfortunately violated the Budapest Memorandum, and we didn't get full security support from the United States, the United Kingdom, and the other nuclear powers. It was a bad signal to all the countries of the world that realized that, in fact, only nuclear weapons could save them from an attack by such an aggressor. That is why we will want to begin this discussion."

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The United States admits that it worked with Kyiv on a number of "research" projects in the field of "pandemic prevention," the activities in which were then terminated, while bioweapons were not developed in such laboratories, says John Kirby, coordinator of strategic communications at the US National Security Council.

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According to Reuters, the United States is preparing a new $2.2 billion military aid package for Ukraine, which for the first time includes longer-range missiles. 

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The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday said it had no indication that U.S. funds had been misused in Ukraine, but would continue to work closely with Ukrainian authorities to ensure appropriate safeguards were in place to avert corruption.🤣 — Reuters

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In June 2022, a 24-year-old British mercenary, Jordan Gatley, who had fought as part of the Ukrainian Foreign Legion, was 'liquidated' near Severodonetsk.

Jordan Gatley was born in 1998 in Cheshire. According to his relatives, he had dreamed of becoming a military man since childhood. After high school in 2016, Gatley signed a contract with the British Armed Forces and served with the 3rd Rifle Battalion in Edinburgh. In early March 2022, he retired at the rank of Lance Corporal and went to Ukraine, where he signed a contract with the Foreign Legion.

According to relatives, Gatley said he would train recruits as an instructor and promised them not to go to the front lines. The Brit did not keep his promise. On June 10, 2022, he was eliminated by a Russian sniper.

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🇺🇸🇺🇦The US authorities are preparing a new $2.2 billion military aid package for Ukraine, Reuters reported, citing two US officials.

According to them, this package will include GLSDB (Ground Launched Small Diameter Bomb) missiles with a range of 150 km (missiles with a range of 70 km are currently being delivered to Ukraine).

Artemovsk (Bakhmut). View from space. January 27, 2023. Fires are visible in the central, northeastern and southeastern parts of the city. Wagner break through the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

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⚡️From February 1, President Vladimir Putin's decree on special measures came into force in response to the Russian oil price ceiling imposed by the G7 countries and the European Union

According to the decree, the sale of oil is prohibited if a price ceiling is specified in the contracts for their supply. The export of oil at a limited cost is allowed only with the permission of the President.

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Duda invited Zelensky to accept the surrender of Russia in Pereyaslav

“I beg you - when you defeat Russia, when the Russians come here on their knees to sign peace, then take them to Pereyaslav, let them sign peace with you there, let them cross out all those years of Soviet and Russian influence,” the Polish president said.

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In Artemovsk in the morning.
There is no operational encirclement of the Artemovskaya group yet.
It is possible either in the case of the capture of Krasnoe, or in the case of mopping up Krasnaya Gora and Paraskovievka with an advance to the north of the city. Either one or the other option will lead to the establishment of fire control over the second road from Chasy Yar to Artemovsk. So far, under the fire of our artillery and MLRS there is a road passing near Krasnoy, and movement along it is already associated with a significant risk. The second road can still be used to supply the Artemovsk group.

In the city itself, our assault groups are advancing in the city in the south, southeast and northeast. For the time being, the enemy is relying on a gradual withdrawal in the city in order to delay his surrender as much as possible. But in the event of cutting the main road to Artemovsk, the processes of withdrawal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Artemovsk will obviously accelerate, as happened in Ugledar, after the attack aircraft of the PMC "Wagner" broke through to the main supply road of the Soledar grouping, which caused an imminent collapse of the enemy's defense.

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Former US presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard also says that Washington lied about its non-involvement in the explosions on the Russian gas pipeline:

“Victoria Nuland's statement revealed the truth about her and the administration. They lied to us so much that the US was not involved in this, did not know about it, or at least did not approve. So they lied to us that the US had nothing to do with it. They also tried to sell us the absurd lie that Russia somehow, of course, blew up its own energy infrastructure to hurt its own economy.”

At the end of September last year, gas leaks were detected at Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 in four places at once. The operator company Nord Stream AG assessed the damage and said that the accident was unprecedented, and it was impossible to give a timeframe for repairs. The authorities of Germany and Denmark admit that sabotage became the cause of the state of emergency. What happened in the Kremlin was called an act of international terrorism.

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