Human Rights Watch (HRW) says a Russian cruise missile strike on Lviv in western Ukraine on July 6, which killed 10 civilians in a residential apartment complex, should be investigated as a possible war crime. The rights group said in a statement on July 19 that "Russian forces used cruise missiles in their July 6 attack on Lviv and unlawfully struck a large apartment complex filled with sleeping civilians in violation of the laws of war.” HRW said bombardments that treat a number of clearly separated and distinct military targets in an area containing civilians and civilian buildings as a single military objective are also "indiscriminate attacks."
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