Moscow (AFP) – The UN said a rocket attack that killed 30 people in a city in eastern Ukraine deliberately targeted civilians, as Russian President Vladimir Putin spurned Western calls to rein in a pro-Moscow insurgency.A senior UN official told an emergency Security Council meeting that the deadly rocket barrage on the port city of Mariupol came from pro-Russian rebel-controlled territory and sought to strike a civilian population, in violation of international humanitarian law.Putin earlier ridiculed the Ukrainian army as NATO’s “foreign legion” after the Western alliance’s NATO-Ukraine Commission met to discuss a surge in fighting that has led to …read more
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