17/03/2022 18:32

Russia's aggressor army is shooting civilians every day, cynically striking peaceful inhabitants and civilian buildings

Today, russian troops covered artillery fire on civilians who were on the street in the center of Chernihiv.  Four people are now known to have died, including US citizen James Whitney Hill.

According to the results of the night shelling of the city of Merefa in the Kharkiv region 21 people died, 25 were injured, debris is still being dismantled.  The school, the house of culture and private houses were destroyed.

During the evacuation of people in the Bucha district in the Kyiv region, the occupiers fired at the evacuation columns with tanks.  One policeman was killed and another was injured.  The same situation occurred in Irpen, when a hail shell hit a police car.  Only now was the body of the policeman removed.

Heavy artillery shelling of residential buildings in the village of Novi Petrivtsi, Kyiv region, killed a two-year-old child and injured four grownups.  As a result of the shelling, a high-rise building was destroyed and neighboring houses were damaged.

The village of Kozacha Lopan in the Kharkiv region was shelled by the russian army with cluster bombs banned under the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Cluster Munitions and on Their Destruction - at least six dead, information on the wounded is being clarified.  The occupiers bombed the railway station, shops, pharmacies and other civilian buildings in the center of the village.

In Severodonetsk, Luhansk region, the occupiers fired on a shelter for mothers with children, where a large number of them were staying.  Fortunately, they were not injured.

Every hour, the troops of the aggressor country commit war crimes and crimes against humanity on the territory of Ukraine, ignoring the norms of all four Geneva Conventions of 1949.

I call on the international community to take decisive action to deter the aggression of the Russian Federation and to force the aggressor country to immediately cease hostilities on the territory of Ukraine.

I appeal to NATO member states, every day the delay in closing the skies over Ukraine takes dozens of civilian lives, children die every day!  This must finally be stopped!

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