THE GUARDIAN
Kenneth Roth
Thu 3 Mar 2022
Kenneth Roth is executive director of Human Rights Watch
We have already seen indiscriminate use of cluster munitions, and the firing of ballistic missiles and rocket artillery
What can be done to stop a worsening spiral of indiscriminate warfare that would endanger countless Ukrainian civilians?’ People shelter from
Russian attacks in a Kyiv underground station on Wednesday. Photograph:
Roman Pilipey/EPA
As Russian forces invading Ukraine
confront stronger and more effective resistance than the Kremlin
probably anticipated, the big question is: what comes next.
The Russian military has a history of meeting such resistance with
serious violations of the laws of war, including deliberately targeting
civilians and subjecting them to indiscriminate and disproportionate
attacks.