Throughout the day on March 17, Russian troops launched attacks on two districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region. This was reported by the head of the regional military administration, Oleksandr Hanzha.
This is reported by Finway
Consequences of the shelling in Nikopol and Synelnykove districts
In the Nikopol district, an agricultural enterprise, an administrative building, residential houses, and an ambulance were caught under enemy fire. As a result of the shelling, a 72-year-old man was injured and is receiving outpatient treatment.
In the Synelnykove district, Russian troops struck the communities of Malomykhailivka, Mezhaivka, and Vasylkiv. According to the regional head, private homes and several vehicles were damaged in these localities.
“In the area, cars and a private house were damaged. Unfortunately, one person has died. Men aged 41 and 56, and a 71-year-old woman were injured,” Hanzha stated.
Assessment of the consequences and qualification of Russia’s actions
Russian troops regularly use various types of weapons — strike drones, missiles, aerial bombs, and multiple launch rocket systems — to attack Ukrainian cities and civilian infrastructure.
Ukrainian authorities and international organizations recognize such strikes as war crimes committed by the Russian Federation and emphasize their targeted nature. Shelling of life-support systems, healthcare facilities, and infrastructure necessary for providing electricity, heating, water supply, communication, and medical assistance exhibits signs of genocidal actions.
During the full-scale war, Russia has repeatedly publicly declared its intentions to destroy the Ukrainian people as a nation, as confirmed by statements from its leadership. Such actions include public calls for the elimination of Ukrainians, targeted shelling of vital infrastructure, persecution and destruction of individuals with pro-Ukrainian positions in occupied territories, the destruction of representatives of the Ukrainian intelligentsia, deportation of children, and the destruction of cultural heritage.
It is worth noting that in 1948, the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. According to it, participating states are obligated to prevent genocide and hold those responsible accountable in both wartime and peacetime.
The Convention defines genocide as acts aimed at the complete or partial destruction of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. Among the signs of genocide are killings, deliberately creating conditions for the destruction of a group, preventing childbirth, forcibly transferring children to another group, and inciting such actions.
At the same time, the Russian leadership denies the facts of targeted strikes on civilian infrastructure and the deaths of civilians, despite numerous evidence of the destruction of hospitals, schools, kindergartens, energy, and water facilities on the territory of Ukraine.