Ukraine: Widespread Use of Cluster Munitions
Press release OCT 20, 2014
Ukrainian government forces used cluster munitions in populated areas in Donetsk city in early October, 2014. The use of cluster munitions in populated areas violates the laws of war due to the indiscriminate nature of the weapon and may amount to war crimes.

Dispatches: The Ukraine Ceasefire That Wasn’t
Dispatches OCT 9, 2014

Dispatches: Marking Ukrainian Independence Day with a Laws-of-War Violation
Dispatches AUG 24, 2014

Dispatches: Merkel Shouldn’t Let Ukrainian Abuses Slide
Dispatches AUG 22, 2014

Dispatches: Mass Grave Found in Eastern Ukraine
Dispatches JUL 24, 2014

Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians
Press release JUL 24, 2014
Unguided Grad rockets launched apparently by Ukrainian government forces and pro-government militias have killed at least 16 civilians and wounded many more in insurgent-controlled areas of Donetsk and its suburbs in at least four attacks between July 12 and 21, 2014.

Ukraine: Displaced People Need Urgent Help
Press release JUL 21, 2014
Ukrainian authorities have not provided adequate protection and assistance to tens of thousands of Ukrainians who were forced to flee their homes, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to President Petro Poroshenko. People have fled because of Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the ongoing armed conflict in eastern Ukraine.

Ukraine: Letter to President Poroshenko on Internally Displaced Persons
Letter JUL 21, 2014
I am writing on behalf of Human Rights Watch to ask that the Ukrainian government urgently intensify efforts to protect the tens of thousands of Ukrainians who have been forced to flee their homes in Crimea and in eastern Ukraine. We fully recognize that the government has had to cope with multiple, profound crises in a short period of time, not least of which have been the armed insurrection in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions and Russia’s occupation of Crimea. But as the number of people forced from their homes continues to grow, so also does the urgency of finding sustainable solutions for them.

Dispatches: Urgent Need for Ukraine Crash Site Access
Dispatches JUL 20, 2014

Ukraine: Letter to President Poroshenko on military operations in Luhansk and Donetsk
Letter JUL 18, 2014
Ukrainian forces and insurgent armed groups are bound by customary international humanitarian law to take all feasible precautions to minimize harm to civilians and civilian objects and to refrain from attacks that fail to discriminate between combatants and civilians, or would cause disproportionate harm to the civilian population.

A Day in Luhansk: War’s Crimes, Horrors, and Uncertainties
Commentary JUL 5, 2014
The ugliness of war makes getting at the truth no easy matter. In the fighting in eastern Ukraine, the pro-Ukraine media is blaming all abuses on anti-Kiev insurgents and pro-Russia media is demonizing Ukrainian government forces.

Ukraine: Escalation Triggers Laws of War
Press release JUN 30, 2014
Ukrainian government forces and armed insurgents in eastern Ukraine must respect the laws of war, Human Rights Watch said in a document published today. “Eastern Ukraine: Questions and Answers about the Laws of War” examines the development of the insurgency in eastern Ukraine into an internal armed conflict and the applicable international law that all the parties must respect.

Dispatches: White Phosphorus, White Lies, or What?
Dispatches JUN 20, 2014

Ukraine: Review Operations in Southeast
Press release JUN 6, 2014
Ukraine’s authorities should review counterinsurgency operations in southeast Ukraine to ensure that government forces are complying with all of their obligations under international law.

Ukraine: Human Rights Watch Letter to Acting President Turchynov and President-Elect Poroshenko
Letter JUN 6, 2014

Ukraine: Investigate Odessa Deaths
Press release MAY 8, 2014
The Ukrainian government investigation into the violence in Odessa on May 2, 2014, should be thorough, impartial, and capable of ensuring that those responsible are held accountable, Human Rights Watch said today in a joint statement with Amnesty International.

Ukraine: Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch Call for Impartial Inquiry into Events in Odessa on May 2
Written statement MAY 8, 2014

Dispatches: A Damning Silence From Kiev
Dispatches MAY 7, 2014

Ukraine: End Politically Motivated Abuses
Press release APR 28, 2014
The escalating crisis in Ukraine is putting journalists and political activists at increasing risk of political-motivated violence, such as unlawful detention, abduction and assaults. Steps to address the political crisis should include undertakings to end abuses against perceived opponents, the immediate release of all those held unlawfully, and accountability for criminal acts.

Ukraine: New Law Violates Judicial Independence
Press release APR 9, 2014
A law passed by the Ukrainian parliament on April 8, 2014, violates guarantees of judicial independence and should be set aside.

Dispatches: Where is the Truth Behind Ukraine’s Maidan Sniper Attacks?
Dispatches APR 3, 2014

«Human Rights Watch не может однозначно возложить на кого–либо ответственность за это нападение», — говорится в докладе. Его авторы подчеркивают, что на момент обстрела населенный пункт контролировали украинские военные, но после атаки он перешел в руки ополченцев. Газета The New York Times трактует этот эпизод как доказательство того, что кассетные бомбы при обстреле Старобешево применялись либо повстанцами ДНР, либо российскими войсками.

При этом HRW напоминает, что Украина, как и Россия, не подписала «Договор о кассетных боеприпасах» от 2008 года, запрещающие применение кассетных бомб.

На сайте HRW ничего нет ни в английской, ни в русской версии.

Организация также считает, что кассетные боеприпасы могли применять и ополченцы

During a week-long investigation in eastern Ukraine, Human Rights Watch documented widespread use of cluster munitions in fighting between government forces and pro-Russian rebels in more than a dozen urban and rural locations. While it was not possible to conclusively determine responsibility for many of the attacks, the evidence points to Ukrainian government forces’ responsibility for several cluster munition attacks on Donetsk. An employee of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was killed on October 2 in an attack on Donetsk that included use of cluster munition rockets.

“It is shocking to see a weapon that most countries have banned used so extensively in eastern Ukraine,” said Mark Hiznay, senior arms researcher at Human Rights Watch. “Ukrainian authorities should make an immediate commitment not to use cluster munitions and join the treaty to ban them.”

At least five Uragan cluster munition rockets containing submunitions struck central Donetsk in early October 2014, based on evidence Human Rights Watch gathered. The evidence overwhelmingly indicates that these rockets were fired from government-held areas near the village of Novomykhailivka, southwest of Donetsk.