As a result of the nighttime attack by Russian forces on Kyiv on March 7, three people were injured. This was reported by the city mayor, Vitali Klitschko. Two of the victims were hospitalized, while one received medical assistance on site.
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Damage to Residential Buildings and Disruptions to Heating Supply in Kyiv
Due to damage to infrastructure, homes in the Pecherskyi, Dniprovs’kyi, Holosiivskyi, Solom’yans’kyi, and Darnyts’kyi districts of the capital are left without centralized heating. A total of nearly 2,700 buildings are without heat, including part of the apartment blocks in the Darnyts’kyi and Dniprovs’kyi districts. In these areas, the supply of heating medium is impossible due to significant damage to the Darnytsia Heat and Power Plant. Utility services are working to restore heating supply.
Situation in Zaporizhzhia, Odesa, and Dnipropetrovsk Region
In Zaporizhzhia, three apartment buildings and three private houses in the Dniprovs’kyi district were damaged as a result of the nighttime shelling. A three-month-old baby was injured and hospitalized. Medical professionals assess the girl’s condition as moderate, and she remains under medical supervision.
“Regarding the child’s condition – doctors assess it as moderate; the three-month-old girl remains under medical supervision,” clarified Fedorov.
Additionally, in Zaporizhzhia, dry grass caught fire near a residential nine-story building due to a shell hit. Rescuers quickly extinguished the fire.
In Odesa region, a massive attack by strike drones was recorded, resulting in damage to port infrastructure and large-scale fires that were quickly localized. There are no casualties in the region, and efforts to eliminate the consequences of the shelling are ongoing.
In Dnipropetrovsk region, there is also one injured person. According to the regional head, her condition is assessed as moderate. Earlier, there were reports of one fatality and another injured person in this region.
According to the Air Forces, during the night, Russian troops launched 480 drones and 29 missiles at Ukraine, of which air defense forces shot down 453 drones and 19 missiles. The main targets of the strikes were Kyiv, Kharkiv, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, and Chernivtsi regions.
Russia continues systematic attacks on Ukrainian cities and civilian infrastructure, using missiles, drones, aerial bombs, and multiple launch rocket systems. These actions lead to the destruction of vital facilities, depriving the population of electricity, heating, water supply, communication, and medical assistance.
Ukrainian authorities and international organizations regard these shellings as war crimes of the Russian Federation and emphasize their deliberate nature. Such actions bear the hallmarks of genocide, particularly due to the shelling of life-support systems and civilian facilities, as well as public calls for the destruction of Ukrainians and attempts to eliminate national identity.
The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted by the UN in 1948, obliges all 149 member countries to prevent genocide and punish such actions both during wartime and in peacetime. According to the Convention, genocide is defined as acts intended to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. Among the signs of genocide are killing, causing serious bodily or mental harm, creating conditions for the destruction of the group, and the forcible transfer of children.
The leadership of Russia denies shelling civilian infrastructure and claims that strikes are aimed only at military targets; however, the facts of the destruction of hospitals, schools, and energy facilities suggest otherwise.