As a result of Russian drone strikes on Kharkiv, civilians were injured, including an 8-year-old girl, a 53-year-old man, and a 74-year-old woman. According to medical sources, all of them experienced acute stress reactions. This was reported by the head of the regional military administration, Oleg Synegubov.
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Attacks in various districts of Kharkiv
There are reports of strikes in the Kyiv, Shevchenkivskyi, and Saltivskyi districts of the city. In the Novobavarskyi district, windows of a private residential building were damaged due to the shockwave. Authorities emphasize that the Russian military deliberately uses various types of weapons – strike drones, missiles, guided bombs, and multiple launch rocket systems – to attack Ukrainian cities and civilian infrastructure across the territory of Ukraine.
Signs of genocide and international reaction
Ukrainian authorities and international experts classify such strikes on the civilian population as war crimes committed by the Russian Federation and emphasize their deliberate nature. Attacks on critical infrastructure and healthcare facilities, which result in depriving people of electricity, heat, water, communication, medical assistance, and other basic living conditions, are considered particularly dangerous. Such actions exhibit signs of genocide.
Attacks on the critical infrastructure of the population and healthcare facilities aimed at depriving people of electricity, heat, water supply, communication, medical assistance, and other necessary living conditions are indicative of genocidal actions.
Lawyers and human rights defenders emphasize that Russian actions fall under the definition of genocide: this includes statements by Russian leaders about the intention to destroy the Ukrainian people, public calls for such crimes, attacks on critical infrastructure, persecution of pro-Ukrainian individuals in occupied territories, destruction of the intelligentsia, deportation of children, and the deliberate eradication of Ukrainian culture.
The UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted in 1948, defines genocide as actions intended to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. To date, it has been signed by 149 countries, which are obligated to prevent such crimes and punish the perpetrators.
The leadership of Russia denies the fact of targeted strikes on civilian infrastructure and casualties among the civilian population; however, the destruction of hospitals, schools, kindergartens, and critical facilities proves otherwise.