In the Zaporizhzhia district, a 76-year-old man was killed due to another shelling by the Russian army. This was reported by the head of the Zaporizhzhia region, Ivan Fedorov. According to him, Russian troops struck the territory of one of the agricultural enterprises with a guided aerial bomb, resulting in the shockwave and debris damaging buildings. The man sustained fatal injuries.
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“The shockwave and debris damaged the structures. A 76-year-old man received fatal injuries,” Fedorov reported.
Consequences of recent attacks in Zaporizhzhia district
The regional authorities note that three more people were injured in the Zaporizhzhia district due to Russian shelling the day before. Russian troops systematically use various types of weapons — guided aerial bombs, kamikaze drones, missile weapons, and multiple launch rocket systems — to attack Ukrainian settlements and civilian infrastructure across the country.
Signs of genocidal actions and international reaction
The Ukrainian authorities and international organizations classify such strikes as war crimes of the Russian Federation, emphasizing their targeted nature. Shelling of vital infrastructure, medical facilities, and energy infrastructure aimed at depriving people of electricity, heat, water, communication, and medical assistance shows signs of genocidal actions.
Experts and human rights defenders emphasize that during the full-scale war, Russia is committing crimes against Ukrainian citizens that may fall under the definition of genocide. Among them are public statements about the intention to destroy the Ukrainian people, shelling of vital infrastructure, persecution and extermination of pro-Ukrainian individuals, extermination of the intelligentsia, deportation of children, and destruction of Ukrainian cultural heritage.
The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1948, obliges the participating countries (currently 149) to prevent acts of genocide and punish the guilty both during wartime and in peacetime. According to the Convention, genocide is considered to be actions committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group, including killing, causing serious bodily harm, creating conditions for destruction, preventing births, forcibly transferring children, and inciting such actions.
The leadership of the Russian Federation denies that its army is deliberately attacking the civilian infrastructure of Ukrainian cities and villages during the full-scale war, killing civilians and destroying hospitals, schools, kindergartens, energy, and water supply facilities.