08/04/2022 15:37

Russian terrorists shot dead a boat with civilians with children from the "Hail"

Yesterday morning, on the shores of the Kakhovka Reservoir near the Svitanok recreation center in Maryansky, Kryvyi Rih district, racists shot a boat sailing from Pervomaivka in the Kherson region to evacuate people from the occupied part of the Kherson region.

People who were only 70 meters from the shore were fired at by the "Hail" multiple rocket launcher, which has a range of tens of kilometers.

There were 14 people in the boat, three children and 11 adults, two adult men and a woman died at once, a 13-year-old child died shortly afterwards, seven people were hospitalized, including children aged 4 and 16, and two civilians were missing.

The deliberate and brutal killing of civilians and children is a war crime and a crime against humanity under Articles 7 and 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and a gross violation of the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and its Additional Protocols.

I appeal to the UN Commission for Investigation Human Rights Violations during Russia's Military Invasion of Ukraine and the expert mission set up by the OSCE participating States under the Moscow Mechanism to take into account these war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine.

I call on international partners to close the skies over Ukraine and provide weapons to fight the aggressor country of Russia!