As a result of a nighttime drone attack by Russian forces on a gas station in the Sumy community, one person was killed and another injured. This was reported by Oleg Grigorov, the head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration.
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Details of the attack and its impact on the civilian population
According to Grigorov, the Russian army attacked the same gas station twice. After the first strike, a gas station employee experienced acute stress reaction. During the second attack, one person was killed and another was injured. The number of casualties from the shelling is currently being clarified.
“During another strike, one person was killed and another was injured. Data on the casualties is being clarified,” Grigorov stated.
Russian troops systematically use various types of weapons, including strike drones, missiles, aerial bombs, and multiple launch rocket systems, to shell Ukrainian cities and critical civilian infrastructure across all regions of the country.
Qualification of Russia’s actions and international law
Ukrainian state authorities and international human rights organizations emphasize that such strikes exhibit signs of war crimes and may be regarded as genocidal actions against the Ukrainian people. In particular, shelling of life-support systems and medical facilities is aimed at depriving residents of electricity, water supply, heating, communication, and necessary medical assistance.
During the full-scale war, the Russian Federation has committed a series of actions that, according to human rights defenders and researchers, fall under the definition of genocide. These actions include: public statements by Russian authorities about the lack of independence of the Ukrainian people and calls for their destruction, targeted shelling of life-support systems, persecution of pro-Ukrainian citizens in occupied territories, extermination of representatives of the intelligentsia, deportation of children and attempts to change their identity, and the confiscation of Ukrainian books and cultural values.
The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1948, obliges participating countries (currently 149) to prevent acts of genocide and to punish them in both wartime and peacetime. According to the Convention, genocide is defined as actions intended to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. Signs of genocide include the killing of members of the group, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, creating conditions calculated to bring about its destruction, preventing births within the group, forcibly transferring children, and publicly inciting such actions.
At the same time, the Russian leadership denies the facts of targeted strikes on civilian infrastructure, despite numerous evidence of the destruction of hospitals, schools, kindergartens, energy facilities, and water supply systems as a result of military actions.