A 47-year-old man has died in Dnipro after sustaining serious injuries from Russia’s missile strike on the city on April 14. This was reported by the head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration, Oleksandr Hanchak.
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“A 47-year-old man wounded by the Russian strike on Dnipro on April 14 has died in hospital.”
Consequences of the attack and government response
According to the regional leader, doctors did everything possible to save the victim over the course of ten days, but his injuries proved to be incompatible with life. In total, seven men were victims of that attack. The authorities expressed their condolences to the families of the deceased.
The missile strike on Dnipro on April 14 resulted in the deaths of four people at the scene of the tragedy. However, later another severely wounded person died in the hospital. The following day, April 15, a day of mourning was declared in the city for the victims.
Targeted aggression by Russia against Ukrainian cities
Russian military forces regularly use various types of weapons, including strike drones, missiles, guided bombs, and multiple launch rocket systems, to attack Ukrainian cities and civilian infrastructure across all regions of the country.
The Ukrainian authorities and international human rights organizations classify such actions by the Russian Federation as war crimes. Special emphasis is placed on the targeted nature of the attacks, which aim to destroy the life-support systems of the population and healthcare facilities. The goal of these actions is to leave people without electricity, heat, water, communication, and medical assistance, which has signs of genocide.
During the full-scale war, Russia commits various crimes against the citizens of Ukraine that may fall under the definition of genocide, human rights defenders and researchers note. Among them are public calls for the destruction of Ukrainians, shelling of infrastructure, persecution of people with pro-Ukrainian positions in occupied territories, forced deportation of children, and the destruction of Ukrainian culture and identity.
The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1948, obliges participating countries to prevent acts of genocide and punish them during wartime and in peacetime. By its definition, genocide is actions carried out with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.
The Russian leadership denies accusations of targeting civilian infrastructure in Ukrainian cities and villages, as well as the deaths of civilians and the destruction of healthcare, education, energy, and water supply facilities.