Human Rights Watch accuses Kiev of using "indiscriminate and unlawful" shelling in civil war.

[Rassah]

52. I think what you may be misunderstanding in this is...

you believe that the separatists are actually fighting for the people in those areas, and those people actually support the separatists. As if the separatists are just moving across the land, completely uninhibited, with more and more people joining them as they go, and only fighting the Ukrainian army when they run into them. I don't know if that was ever even the case, but at this point those "separatists" are basically warlords, forcefully taking over cities, instituting their own rule, kidnapping and torturing anyone they suspect is against them, and even fighting entire towns of people who resist (did you read that other Human Rights Watch article?) They are not above shelling "their own people" because they don't consider people in those towns as their own. They only see them as areas left to conquer. For instance, Mariupol, a town way in the east that they are moving towards, is completely against them, and is preparing to defend itself against the separatists. Do you think those separatists will get to Mariupol, be told "no, thanks, we want to stay with Ukraine," and just move on? Also, do note that all the news published lately has been "separatists take the city of ...", not "the city of ... joins separatists in their fight."