As a result of yet another attack by the Russian army on Nikopol, located in the Dnipropetrovsk region, ten civilians were injured. This was reported by the head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration, Oleksandr Hanzha.
This is reported by Finway
Details of the Shelling and Condition of the Injured
According to available information, the Russians struck the city using FPV drones and artillery. Among the injured are five women and five men. Two of the injured were hospitalized. The condition of a 75-year-old woman is assessed as serious, while a 49-year-old woman is in moderate condition.
“Two people have been hospitalized. The 75-year-old woman is in serious condition. The 49-year-old victim is in moderate condition,” clarified the regional head.
On the eve of this incident, on March 31, 11 people were injured in the area due to shelling, including a 16-year-old girl. Russian military forces continue to systematically attack the Nikopol district using various types of weapons: strike drones, rockets, aerial bombs, and multiple launch rocket systems.
Scale of Crimes and International Assessment
According to estimates by Ukrainian authorities and international organizations, regular strikes on civilian infrastructure, essential services, and healthcare facilities are considered war crimes by the Russian Federation. These shellings are targeted and aimed at depriving the local population of electricity, heat, water supply, communication, access to medical care, and other basic living conditions.
Actions such as shelling of essential services, deportation of children, persecution of pro-Ukrainian citizens in occupied territories, public calls for the destruction of Ukrainians, and the destruction of Ukrainian cultural heritage are considered by experts and human rights defenders to fall under the definition of genocide.
The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1948, obliges 149 participating countries to combat acts of genocide regardless of whether they occur in wartime or peacetime. According to this international document, genocide is defined as actions aimed at the complete or partial destruction of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.
At the same time, the leadership of Russia ignores accusations of deliberately targeting civilian objects, hospitals, schools, energy, and water supply facilities, denying responsibility for the deaths and injuries of the civilian population of Ukraine.