Amnesty, however, said it has gathered evidence, including photos and video footage, suggesting the Russians have used unguided bombs, including cluster munitions, in densely populated civilian areas.
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Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the defence ministry would be looking into the accuracy of the Amnesty report.
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“The report constantly uses expressions such as “supposedly Russian strikes, ‘ ‘possible violations of global law” – a lot of assumptions without any evidence”, he noted.
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The human rights watchdog’s latest report exposing “Russia’s shameful failure to acknowledge civilian killings” is focused on six attacks in Homs, Idlib and Aleppo provinces, which the NGO pinned on “suspected Russian airstrikes”.
However, the Russian authorities have alleged their armed forces are attacking only “terrorists” targets and have denied killing civilians.
As an ally to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Russia deems both the Islamic State and rebel groups opposing Assad as “terrorists”.
“Such attacks may amount to war crimes”.
He also denied the Russian military used cluster munitions in Syria.
Russia’s bombing of Syria may amount to a war crime because of the number of civilians its strikes have killed, Amnesty International said on in a report on Wednesday, presenting what it said was evidence that the air raids had violated humanitarian law.
He also rejected accusations by human rights bodies that Russian Federation was using cluster bombs in Syria.
The London-based rights group said there is “evidence suggesting that Russian authorities may have lied to cover up civilian damage to a mosque from one air strike and a field hospital in another”.
“Such indiscriminate attacks are resulting in people fleeing for their lives, and while Amnesty International continues to call on New Zealand to commit to a permanent increase in the refugee quota, New Zealand must also step up to address the reasons why civilians flee their homes”.
On 29 November, for example, it said at least one suspected Russian warplane fired three missiles into a busy public market in Ariha, in Idlib province. “People were buying goods – children were eating”, activist Mohammed Qurabi al-Ghazal told Amnesty.
The residents say they distinguish Russian planes because they fly at higher altitudes from Syrian planes or helicopters, which tend to drop indiscriminate barrel bombs at lower altitudes.
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“But they can’t know this and are unable to verify it. It is known that jihadists in Syria are operating as highly mobile units, which are using the notorious Toyota pickups with large-caliber armaments mounted on them”, the Russian Defense Ministry spokesman said.
