As a result of another attack by Russian troops on Koryukivka in the Chernihiv region, two local residents were injured and electricity supply was disrupted for thousands of consumers. This was reported by the head of the Chernihiv Regional Administration, Vyacheslav Chaus.
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Massive drone attack and its impact on infrastructure
According to Chaus, Russia used 18 strike drones against the city. The main targets of the occupiers were enterprises engaged in wood processing and wallpaper production. As a result of the shelling, two men were injured: a 42-year-old suffered thermal burns, while an 81-year-old was hospitalized with shrapnel wounds. The condition of both is assessed as moderate.
“It is already known about two injured men. The 42-year-old victim has thermal burns. The 81-year-old man was hospitalized with shrapnel wounds. Both are in moderate condition,” Chaus stated.
In addition to industrial facilities, important critical infrastructure objects in the Koryukivka and Chernihiv districts, as well as a transport infrastructure facility in the Nizhyn district, were also damaged. In Semenivka of the Novhorod-Siverskyi district, a boiler house was damaged.
Power outages and qualification of Russia’s actions
As a result of the shelling of an energy facility in the Koryukivka district, the company “Chernihivoblenergo” recorded a power outage affecting 4,500 subscribers. Energy workers are urgently working to restore electricity supply.
Russian military forces continue to deliberately attack Ukrainian cities using various types of weapons, including strike drones, missiles, guided aerial bombs, and multiple launch rocket systems. Such strikes are often aimed at civilian infrastructure across Ukraine.
The Ukrainian authorities and international organizations classify such actions as war crimes and emphasize their deliberate nature. Shelling of life-support systems for the population, as well as healthcare facilities, aimed at depriving people of electricity, heat, and water, is indicative of actions that may fall under the definition of genocide according to international law.
During the large-scale war, Russia is committing various crimes against the citizens of Ukraine, which, according to legal experts and human rights defenders, may indicate an intent to destroy the Ukrainian nation. Among such actions are public calls for the destruction of Ukrainians, shelling of life-support systems, deportation of children, destruction of Ukrainian culture, and persecution of pro-Ukrainian individuals in occupied territories.
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 both in wartime and peacetime. The document defines genocide as actions aimed at the complete or partial destruction of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group through killings, causing serious bodily harm, creating conditions intended for physical destruction, and the forcible transfer of children.
The leadership of Russia denies targeted strikes on civilian infrastructure and claims that their army does not engage in combat against the civilian population. However, the facts of the destruction of hospitals, schools, kindergartens, energy, and water supply facilities indicate otherwise.