Russian military forces have launched a new attack on Ukraine’s transport infrastructure, targeting railway facilities in the Dnipropetrovsk region. As a result of a drone strike on a freight train, an electric locomotive was hit, injuring the engineer and his assistant. Specialists promptly provided the necessary medical assistance to the injured.
This is reported by Finway
Attacks on Civil Logistics and Shipping
The Ministry of Community and Territorial Development of Ukraine emphasized that these strikes are deliberate actions against civil logistics. In a specific incident, a Russian drone struck a civilian vessel as it was leaving one of the ports in Odesa region: one crew member was injured and received assistance.
“One crew member was injured and received medical assistance.”
Additionally, drones from the Russian Federation damaged several cars at a railway station in Odesa region, but there were no casualties among people.
Scale of Shelling and International Qualification
According to local authorities, in the Kamianske district of Dnipropetrovsk region, two men were injured due to yet another strike on transport infrastructure. Russian forces systematically employ a wide range of weaponry – strike drones, missiles, aerial bombs, and multiple launch rocket systems – to attack Ukrainian cities and civilian facilities across all regions of the country.
Ukrainian state authorities and international human rights organizations regard such strikes as war crimes with a deliberate nature. In particular, shelling of vital systems and medical facilities aims to deprive the population of electricity, heat, water, communication, and medical assistance, which, according to human rights defenders, is indicative of genocidal actions.
The Russian leadership has repeatedly stated its intention to destroy Ukrainian identity, and the shelling of infrastructure aims to undermine Ukraine’s economy and global food security. Such actions fall under the definition of crimes as outlined in the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted in 1948. The participants of the Convention, currently 149 countries, are obligated to prevent and punish acts of genocide in both peacetime and wartime.
According to the Convention, genocide consists of acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group as such. Signs of genocide include killing members of the group, causing serious bodily or mental harm to them, deliberately inflicting living conditions calculated to bring about their physical destruction, preventing births within the group, and forcibly transferring children to another group, as well as publicly inciting such acts.
At the same time, Russia denies the facts of targeted strikes on civilian infrastructure, despite numerous evidence of the destruction of hospitals, educational institutions, energy facilities, and water supply systems in Ukraine.