In the Zaporizhzhia region, Russian military forces carried out an airstrike on the territory of one of the agricultural enterprises, resulting in the injury of a 33-year-old driver and damage to agricultural machinery. This was reported by the head of the region, Ivan Fedorov.
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Consequences of the attack and the condition of the victim
According to the regional head, guided bombs from Russia hit the farm where they are working on growing wheat.
“The Russians are striking those who grow bread – a person is injured, agricultural machinery is damaged. The enemy struck with guided bombs on the territory of the agricultural enterprise in the Zaporizhzhia region,” he stated.
After the attack, the victim received the necessary medical assistance. The destruction and damage to field processing equipment will complicate the further work of the enterprise and may affect the course of the sowing campaign in the region.
Systematic strikes on civilian infrastructure
The Russian Federation continues to carry out attacks on civilian objects and infrastructure throughout Ukraine. Various types of weapons are used for this: strike drones, missiles, guided bombs, and multiple launch rocket systems. The targets of such shelling often include vital infrastructure, energy facilities, medical institutions, and other critically important establishments for the population.
The Ukrainian authorities and international organizations classify such strikes as war crimes of the Russian Federation, emphasizing their targeted nature. The destruction of life-support systems, depriving people of electricity, heat, water, communication, and medical assistance is viewed by experts as a sign of genocidal actions.
It is specifically noted that Russian officials have repeatedly made public statements regarding their intentions to destroy Ukrainians as a nation and denied the existence of the Ukrainian ethnicity. Actions that exhibit signs of genocide include targeted shelling of civilian infrastructure, persecution of pro-Ukrainian citizens, extermination of the intelligentsia, deportation of children, and destruction of Ukrainian cultural heritage in occupied territories.
The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted by the UN in 1948, obliges all participating countries (currently 149) to prevent and punish genocide both in peacetime and wartime. According to the Convention, genocide is defined as acts aimed at the destruction of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group, including killings, causing serious bodily harm, creating conditions for the destruction of the group, or forcibly transferring children.
Despite numerous evidence of systematic attacks on the peaceful population and infrastructure, the leadership of Russia denies allegations of committing war crimes and insists that strikes on civilian objects are not being carried out.