25/04/2022 11:58

Commissioner: On Easter, the racists subjected peaceful Ukrainian towns and villages to massive shelling

The russians from “Heil” system  fired on Kharkiv, a residential area Oleksiyivka.  Dwelling houses, cars, a shop were damaged.

A 59-year-old man died as a result of artillery shelling in the city of Chuguiv.  Six other civilians were injured, including an 11-year-old boy.  A number of residential buildings were damaged and destroyed.

The occupiers also opened fire on the village of Malynivka, Chuhuiv district.  5 residents were injured.

A woman was killed in artillery shelling in the village of Kalynove, Bohodukhiv district, more than five houses were destroyed, and a man was wounded by shrapnel in the village of Zolochiv.

On Easter day, the russians shelled the residential districts of Lysychansk, Rubizhne and Horsky, damaging about 9 buildings, including 2 apartment buildings and 4 private houses, outbuildings, garages, 2 infrastructure facilities, and a truck.

In Severodonetsk there was a collapse in a high-rise building, one person was rescued from the rubble.

On April 24, russian shelling killed five civilians in the Donetsk region: 2 in Novoselivka, 2 in Krasnohorivka of the Ocheretyn community, and 1 in Novomykhailivka.  Five others were injured.

Another shelling of the city of Avdiivka, Donetsk region, was carried out by the Russian Armed Forces using a multiple rocket launcher.

Under the fire of the occupiers was one of the largest enterprises of the coke industry in the country - PJSC "Avdiivka Coke Plant".  Complete information on damaged infrastructure is being established.

In Zaporizhia on April 24, at about 10:00 in Vasylivka, shelling began.  The rockets, according to locals, flew to the places where the consecration of Easter cakes was announced the other day, and the attack itself began immediately with the start of the service.

The russian army fired on the Sumy region.  The occupiers used artillery.  Enemy shells hit a psychoneurological boarding school in the village of Atynske.  The door and windows of the building are broken.

The killing of civilians, shelling of civilian cities and civilian objects by the aggressor army is war crimes and crimes against humanity under Articles 7 and 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and gross violation of the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and its Additional Protocols.

I call on the UN Commission for Investigation Human Rights Violations during Russia's Military Invasion of Ukraine to take into account these facts of war crimes and human rights violations in Ukraine.

I call on international partners to provide weapons to fight the aggressor country of Russia!