Druzhkivka in the Donetsk region has once again suffered intense shelling from the Russian army. According to the head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration, Vadym Filashkin, on March 2, as a result of another enemy attack, at least nine people were injured.
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Scale of Destruction and Government Response
According to operational information, Russian military forces struck the city using aerial bombs. As a result, two administrative buildings and one private house were damaged. Relevant services are working at the scene, providing medical assistance to the victims and assessing the extent of the damage. Authorities emphasize that the situation in the city remains tense due to ongoing shelling.
“At least 9 people have been injured as a result of today’s strikes on Druzhkivka. The city is under constant enemy fire – today is no exception,” he stated.
Shelling of Civil Infrastructure and Signs of Genocide
Russian troops regularly employ a wide arsenal of weaponry, including strike drones, missiles, aerial bombs, and multiple launch rocket systems, to attack Ukrainian cities and civil infrastructure. Ukrainian authorities and international organizations classify such actions as war crimes, emphasizing their targeted nature.
Shelling of vital facilities and healthcare institutions, which deprives the population of access to electricity, heat, water, communication, and medical services, exhibits signs of genocidal actions. Legal experts, genocide researchers, and human rights defenders point to the systematic nature of these crimes, accompanied by public calls from Russian officials for the destruction of Ukrainians as an ethnic group, as well as the persecution and deportation of the population in occupied territories.
The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1948, obliges member states (currently 149) to prevent such crimes and punish the perpetrators in both wartime and peacetime. According to the Convention, genocide is defined as acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. Signs of genocide include killings, causing serious bodily harm, deliberately inflicting living conditions intended to destroy, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children to another group.
The leadership of Russia denies the facts of targeted strikes on civil infrastructure and the deaths of civilians in Ukraine, although evidence of systematic attacks on hospitals, schools, energy facilities, and water supply systems is evident.