26/04/2022 14:01

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

In the Donetsk region during a day occupiers fired at 13 settlements.  At least 17 civilian facilities were destroyed - homes, a school, an orphanage, a community center, and a factory.

The enemy fired on the civilian population from aircraft, missiles, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, tanks, and heavy artillery.

Residents of Derhachi, Kharkiv Oblast, and several surrounding villages were affected by the occupiers' shelling.  The rashists fired artillery at the streets and houses.  3 civilians were killed and 1 was injured.

Two more were injured in the shelling in Zolochiv district, and four locals in Kharkiv were injured.

The russians have fired on civilians in the Luhansk region 17 times in the past 24 hours, and fighting continues in Popasna and Rubezhnoye.

Popasna withstood four powerful artillery attacks, and Lysychansk withstood two.  There is damage to two houses in Lysychansk, two - in Popasna, at least one - in the Mountain.

Russian troops captured the village of Novotoshkivske in Luhansk region and completely destroyed it.

Russian troops attacked the city of Nikolaev again.  They fired from Smerch-type multiple rocket launchers, destroyed the shop of a private food industry enterprise, damaged a grocery supermarket, and smashed windows in many apartments. Two people were injured, including a child.

The occupiers also attacked the city of Ochakiv with X-35 missiles and struck civilian targets along the coastline.

As a result of missile strikes by the russian occupiers on the morning of April 25 on the transport infrastructure near the town of Zhmerynka and Kozyatyn in the Vinnytsia region, according to preliminary data, 5 people died and 18 were injured.

Yesterday's missile strikes by the Russian Federation on 5 railway stations of Ukraine took the lives of one railway worker, 4 more were injured.

This morning two rashist guided missiles hit the territory of one of the enterprises of the city of Zaporizhia.  The third rocket exploded in the air.  Infrastructure facilities of the enterprise were damaged and destroyed.  According to preliminary information, one person was killed and one was injured

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!