On the night of March 6, Russian military forces launched a massive attack on the Dnipropetrovsk region, using multiple launch rocket systems “Uragan,” drones, and artillery. This was reported by the head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration, Oleksandr Hanzha.
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Scale of Destruction and Casualties
The Nikopol district suffered particularly severe damage, with the district center and the Myrivska and Pokrovska communities coming under fire. As a result of the shelling, infrastructure, administrative buildings, a business, shops, and a hair salon were damaged. A residential building, three outbuildings, and a car were destroyed. More than 20 apartment buildings and private homes, buses, passenger cars, and trucks were damaged.
“Infrastructure, several administrative buildings, a business, shops, and a hair salon were damaged. A residence, three outbuildings, and a car were destroyed. Over 20 apartment buildings and private homes, buses, passenger cars, and trucks were damaged. Three people were injured – a 15-year-old girl, a 66-year-old man, and a 55-year-old woman. All will receive outpatient treatment,” Hanzha reported.
As a result of the attack, three people were injured: a 15-year-old girl, a 66-year-old man, and a 55-year-old woman. All are receiving outpatient treatment.
Attacks in Other Districts and Consequences
In Kryvyi Rih, fires broke out due to shelling, damaging apartment buildings, a lyceum, a business, and an important infrastructure facility. In the Synelnykove district, private homes were hit, two of which were completely destroyed.
The day before, as a result of shelling in Dnipropetrovsk region, two more men were injured, one of whom was hospitalized.
Russian troops systematically use various types of weapons – strike drones, missiles, guided aerial bombs, and multiple launch rocket systems, attacking Ukrainian cities and civilian infrastructure across all regions of the country. Such criminal actions are regarded by the Ukrainian authorities and international organizations as war crimes of the Russian Federation, emphasizing their deliberate nature.
Shelling of essential facilities and healthcare institutions aimed at depriving the population of electricity, heat, water supply, communication, and medical assistance exhibits signs of genocidal actions. Human rights defenders and researchers point out that Russia is committing all types of crimes against the citizens of Ukraine that fall under the definition of genocide. Among them are public calls for the destruction of Ukrainians, persecution of pro-Ukrainian individuals in occupied territories, targeted destruction of the intelligentsia, deportation of children, destruction of Ukrainian cultural values, and alteration of children’s identities.
The UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted in 1948, obligates 149 member countries to prevent and punish acts of genocide during war and in peacetime. According to the document, genocide is recognized as actions aimed at the complete or partial destruction of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.
The leadership of Russia denies the facts of targeted shelling of civilian infrastructure, the deaths of civilians, and the destruction of hospitals, schools, energy, and water supply facilities in Ukraine during the full-scale war.