“Doctors diagnosed the victims with shrapnel wounds, craniocerebral injuries and contusions”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“So far, eleven people, including three children, have needed medical assistance. Doctors diagnosed shrapnel injuries, brain injuries and contusions,” he wrote in a telegram.
According to the local authorities, around 18:00 Russian troops struck Zaporizhzhia with drones. Two people died – an 18-year-old boy and a girl, and seven people were reported injured. Four high-rise buildings, cars, non-residential premises were damaged. Later, the head of OVA added that another high-rise building was damaged by a Russian drone.
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.
Shelling of 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 is a sign of genocidal actions. During 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.
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.