A new crime by Russian military forces has been recorded in the Dnipropetrovsk region: they attacked a gas station in the Krynychanska community of the Kamianske district, located more than 40 kilometers west of the city of Dnipro. During the shelling, a bus with 40 children on board was damaged.
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Evacuation of children and injuries among adults
At the time of the attack, as reported by the head of the regional military administration, Oleksandr Hanzha, the children had already left the vehicle and were evacuated to a safe place. As a result of the shelling, a 10-year-old boy was injured and hospitalized in moderate condition. Medical assistance was also provided to five adults, including a 21-year-old pregnant woman. A 40-year-old woman is in serious condition, while the other injured adults are in moderate condition.
“Russian military forces attacked a gas station in the Dnipropetrovsk region and hit a bus carrying 40 children, reported the head of the regional military administration, Oleksandr Hanzha, on the morning of May 3.”
Systematic shelling of civilian infrastructure
Additionally, earlier that same morning, an attack on the Nikopol district was recorded, resulting in one person being injured. Russian troops continue to regularly use various types of weapons — including strike drones, missiles, aerial bombs, and multiple launch rocket systems — to shell Ukrainian cities and civilian infrastructure across all regions of the country.
Ukrainian authorities and international organizations classify such strikes as war crimes of the Russian Federation, emphasizing their targeted nature. Shelling of life-support systems and healthcare facilities, aimed at depriving the population of electricity, heat, water, communication, and medical assistance, bears the hallmarks of genocide.
Human rights defenders and genocide researchers emphasize that Russia, during the war in Ukraine, engages in actions that may meet the definition of genocide: from public calls for the destruction of Ukrainians, persecution of pro-Ukrainian citizens in occupied territories, destruction of the intelligentsia, deportation of children, to the targeted shelling of civilian infrastructure and cultural heritage.
According to the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted in 1948, participating countries are obligated to prevent acts of genocide and punish them regardless of whether they occur during wartime or in peacetime. Genocide is defined as actions aimed at the complete or partial destruction of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group, which includes killings, serious bodily harm, creating conditions intended to destroy the group, and other similar crimes.
At the same time, the leadership of Russia denies the facts of targeted strikes on the civilian infrastructure of Ukrainian cities and villages, as well as harm to the civilian population and destruction of critical infrastructure facilities such as hospitals, schools, kindergartens, energy, and water supply systems.