GENEVA – A U.N. report on extensive human rights violations in the Russian-backed separatist regions of eastern Ukraine and in the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula has triggered a fiery debate at the U.N. human rights council.
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Rescue workers clear debris in the ruins of a house which came under an artillery attack in the village of Maryinka on June 14, 2019. A nine-year-old girl and three of her family members were injured on June 14 after their house in the village of Maryinka, some 20 kilometres (12 miles) southwest of the Russia-backed separatists' de facto capital Donetsk, came under an artillery attack, the defence ministry said.
