For the third consecutive day, the military of the Russian Federation has been conducting massive shelling of Naftogaz group facilities in the Poltava region. This was reported by the company’s press service. As a result of the latest attack, another employee of the energy company has died.
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Details of the Shelling and Employee Losses
According to official information from Naftogaz, during the latest missile strike, 55-year-old Roman Chmykhun, who worked as a technological installations operator, tragically lost his life. This marks the second loss among the company’s staff this week.
“We have a painful loss. During one of the attacks, our colleague — 55-year-old Roman Chmykhun — was killed. He worked as a technological installations operator. This is the second death of our colleague this week.”
Emergency and investigative services are currently working at the scene, determining the circumstances of the shelling and mitigating its consequences. Vitaliy Dyakivnych, head of the Poltava Regional Military Administration, confirmed the information about the employee’s death and the damage to the industrial facility as a result of the nighttime strikes by Russian troops in the region.
Halting Gas Production and Qualification of Crimes
The head of the board of Naftogaz previously reported that due to Russian attacks, the company responsible for gas production in Poltava had to cease operations. This significantly impacts the energy security of the region and the country as a whole.
Russian troops systematically use various types of weaponry — strike drones, missiles, guided aerial bombs, and multiple launch rocket systems — to attack peaceful cities, energy facilities, and other civilian infrastructure across Ukraine.
Ukrainian authorities and international organizations have repeatedly emphasized that such strikes exhibit signs of war crimes and are deliberate attempts to terrorize the population. Attacks on life-support systems, healthcare facilities, energy infrastructure, and communications that deprive people of basic living conditions are considered actions with potential signs of genocide.
The Russian leadership officially denies targeted strikes on civilian infrastructure; however, numerous instances of destruction of hospitals, schools, kindergartens, energy, and water supply facilities indicate otherwise.
The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1948, obliges its participants (currently 149) to prevent acts of genocide and to punish them in both wartime and peacetime. Genocide is defined as actions aimed at the complete or partial destruction of national, ethnic, racial, or religious groups.