As a result of a Russian drone strike on a non-operational enterprise in Chuhuiv, Kharkiv region, four people were injured. This was reported by the city mayor, Halyna Minayeva. Among the injured are a civilian woman and three police officers. The attack also damaged a critical infrastructure facility, a children’s institution, and about 15 private residential houses, primarily affecting windows and roofs.
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Consequences of the attack and restoration of electricity supply
The mayor noted that most areas of Chuhuiv that were left without electricity after the strike are planned to be reconnected to the power supply within approximately two hours. Attacks by Russian drones and other types of weaponry in the region occur regularly, leading to infrastructure destruction and threats to the civilian population.
Targeted strikes and signs of war crimes
The armed forces of Russia systematically use strike drones, missiles, aerial bombs, and multiple launch rocket systems to attack Ukrainian cities and civilian infrastructure across the country. Ukrainian authorities and international organizations classify these strikes as war crimes of the Russian Federation, emphasizing their targeted nature and alignment with the characteristics of genocide.
“Currently, there are reports of varying degrees of injury to a civilian woman and three police officers. A critical infrastructure facility, a children’s institution, and about 15 private houses (mainly windows and roofs) have been damaged.”
Shelling of vital facilities, including electricity, heating, water supply systems, communication, and medical institutions, is aimed at depriving the population of basic living conditions. Such actions, according to human rights defenders and researchers, fall under the definition of genocide, as they aim for the partial or total destruction of a national group.
The President of Russia and government representatives have repeatedly made public statements denying the existence of Ukrainians as a separate ethnicity, calling for the destruction of Ukraine and its people, and resorting to public incitement to violence. In the occupied territories, there are recorded cases of persecution of individuals with pro-Ukrainian positions, destruction of the intelligentsia, implementation of programs to change children’s identities, deportations, and the destruction of Ukrainian cultural heritage.
The UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted in 1948, defines genocide as acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. To date, 149 countries are parties to this Convention and are obligated to prevent acts of genocide and punish those guilty of such crimes in both wartime and peacetime.
The leadership of Russia continues to deny targeted strikes on civilian infrastructure that result in casualties among the civilian population, destruction of hospitals, schools, energy facilities, and water supply systems in Ukraine.