15/04/2022 15:13

Commissioner: Rashists kill peaceful Ukrainians every day and destroy houses

Rashist aircraft and artillery kill peaceful Ukrainians every day and destroy homes

Yesterday, as a result of russian shelling and air strikes in Donetsk region, 3 civilians were killed and 7 were injured.

It was possible to clarify the information about one wounded in Volnovakha, but the total number of victims in Volnovakha and Mariupol is currently unknown.

Since February 24, 238 people have been killed in the Donetsk region (excluding the cities of Mariupol and Volnovakha), and 772 people have been injured.

In the Kharkiv region, the russians fired 34 shots from multiple rocket launchers and artillery in the Kharkiv region over the past 24 hours.  The occupiers fired on Zolochiv and nearby settlements.  In the region for the day 8 civilians were wounded by russian shelling, 1 person was lost.

During the full-scale invasion of Russia, 503 civilians were killed in Kharkiv region, including 24 children.

24 times russian troops fired on houses and infrastructure of Luhansk region last night - two people were killed and two others were wounded.  12 houses, technical and industrial buildings were destroyed and damaged.

The chaotic shelling of Kreminna has been going on since last night.  The russians opened fire on the city with heavy weapons.  Five locals were injured by shrapnel.  One elderly man died.

Explosions and shelling in the Kherson region.  There is currently no information on the destruction and casualties.  In the region in many settlements humanitarian crisis, looting of military of the Russian Federation proceeds.

A tractor exploded on an anti-tank mine in the village of Nova Basan, Chernihiv Region.  The driver was fatally injured and died on the spot.

Pyrotechnics of the State Emergency Service destroyed about 500 munitions in the Kyiv region in just one day.  Shells and mines are found in the yards of private houses, along roads, in open areas and infrastructure.

In the Synelnykivskyi district on the border with Zaporizhia and Donetsk oblasts on April 14, a rocket hit a non-residential premises.  The building is partially destroyed.

In Vasylivka of the Zaporozhye region yesterday shellings from the russian army on private houses proceeded.  As a result of the Russian shelling, 1 person was killed and 5 were injured.

In the Bashtansky area in the Nikolaev area the russian troops continue to fire at objects of infrastructure, apartment houses.  There are wounded and dead among the civilian population.  About 165 private houses are uninhabitable.

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 appeal to 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 crimes against humanity and human rights violations in Ukraine.

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