Thousands of people were left without electricity, water and heat in Lviv Oblast after the Russian attack – OVA

In Dobrotvor, Lviv Oblast, six thousand local residents were left without water and heat due to a Russian attack on a critical infrastructure facility, the head of the regional military administration, Maksym Kozytskyi, said.

He also informed that hourly electricity blackout schedules are in effect in the region. “Now, more than 600,000 subscribers are without electricity in the entire Lviv region,” Kozytskyi added.

Later, he reported that the supply of water, heat and electricity was restored in Dobrotvor and Old Dobrotvor.

In addition, according to the head of the OVA, as a result of the night attack in Stary Dobrotvor, 18 residential buildings were damaged, one was completely destroyed.

Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Energy Denys Shmyhal reported that the Russian military carried out another mass attack on energy facilities of Ukraine. According to him, substations and overhead lines of 750 kV and 330 kV – “the basis of the energy network of Ukraine” – were under attack, as well as generation: Burshtynska TPP (located in Ivano-Frankivsk region) and Dobrotvirska TPP (in Lviv region).

The Ministry of Energy says that Ukrainian nuclear power plants have been forced to reduce their generation capacity.

“Ukrenergo” stated that due to the damage caused, emergency shutdowns of electricity were applied in most regions.

The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that Russian troops attacked Ukraine with missiles and drones during the night and morning of February 7, a total of 447 means of air attack. According to the report, the main directions of the attack were Lviv Oblast, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Rivne Oblast, and Vinnytsia Oblast.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, commenting on another attack by the Russian Federation, said that Moscow should be deprived of the opportunity to put cold pressure on Ukraine. “For this we need missiles for Patriots, NASAMS and other systems. Every batch helps us get through this winter. Thanks to all partners who understand this and really help,” he wrote in a telegram.

After the previous Russian attacks, the Ukrainian energy sector is under a state of emergency.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine previously stated that it qualifies the Russian strikes on energy, which deprive Ukrainians of heat supply against the background of severe frosts, as acts of genocide.

The Russian military regularly attacks Ukrainian cities and civilian infrastructure in all regions of Ukraine with various types of weapons – strike UAVs, missiles, anti-aircraft missiles, anti-aircraft missiles.

The Ukrainian authorities and international organizations qualify these strikes as war crimes of the Russian Federation and emphasize that they are purposeful in nature.

Attacks on life support systems and health care facilities with the aim of depriving people of electricity, heat, water supply, communication, medical care and other necessary conditions for life are a sign genocidal actsDuring a large-scale war, Russia commits all kinds of crimes against the citizens of Ukraine that can be defined as genocide, according to lawyers, genocide researchers and human rights defenders. Namely:announcement of intentions to destroy Ukrainians: the president of Russia and representatives of the Russian government have repeatedly stated that Ukrainians as an ethnic group “do not exist”, that it is an “artificially created” nation, and those who do not think so “must be destroyed”, and Ukraine and Ukrainians should not exist in the future;
public calls for the extermination of Ukrainians;
targeted attacks on life support systems and healthcare institutions with the aim of depriving people of electricity, heat, water supply, communication, medical care and other necessary conditions for life;
persecution and extermination of people with a pro-Ukrainian position in the occupied territories;
extermination of the intelligentsia: teachers, artists, people who are carriers of Ukrainian culture and educate others in it;
introduction of a system of education and upbringing aimed at changing the identity of children in educational institutions in the occupied territories;
deportation of children without parents to Russia in order to change their identity;
removal and destruction of Ukrainian books from libraries, looting of museums and purposeful theft of artifacts indicating the ancient history of Ukrainians.

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1948.

Countries participating in the Conventionand there are currently 149 of them, should prevent acts of genocide and punish them during wartime and in peacetime.

The Convention defines genocide as actswhich are carried out with the intention to completely or partially destroy a national, ethnic, racial, religious, ethnic group as such.

Signs of genocide: killing group members or inflicting serious bodily harm on them; deliberate creation of living conditions designed to destroy the group; prevention of childbirth and forced transfer of children from one group to another; public incitement to commit such actions.

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The leadership of Russia denies that the Russian army during a full-scale war inflicts targeted strikes on the civilian infrastructure of the cities and villages of Ukraine, killing the civilian population and destroying hospitals, schools, kindergartens, energy and water supply facilities.