On the morning of April 11, the center of Kramatorsk was hit by an airstrike from the Russian Federation. According to the Donetsk Regional Prosecutor’s Office, the attack was carried out using guided FAB-250 aerial bombs equipped with a UMPC module.
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Consequences of the Attack and Condition of the Injured
As a result of this strike on the city center, ten people were injured – four women aged 29, 31, 43, and 47, as well as six men aged 38, 47, 56, 61, 64, and 89. Two of the injured are in serious condition, and all those wounded are receiving necessary medical assistance.
“As a result of the shelling, four women aged 29, 31, 43, and 47, and men aged 38, 47, 56, 61, 64, and 89 sustained mine-explosive, traumatic brain injuries, and shrapnel wounds. Two of the injured are in serious condition. Qualified medical assistance is being provided to the wounded,” the prosecutor’s office reported.
Damage to apartment buildings and vehicles has also been recorded at the impact sites. According to Oleksandr Honcharenko, head of the Kramatorsk City Military Administration, Russian forces dropped four FAB-250 aerial bombs on the city around 09:45.
Systematic Attacks and International Response
The Russian Federation regularly conducts shelling of Ukrainian cities using various types of weapons, including strike drones, missiles, aerial bombs, and multiple launch rocket systems. Both military and civilian facilities and infrastructure across all regions of Ukraine are targeted.
The Ukrainian authorities, along with international organizations, classify such actions as war crimes and emphasize their deliberate nature. There is particular concern over attacks on essential services and medical facilities, which aim to deprive the population of basic living conditions.
According to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1948, participating countries are obligated to prevent acts of genocide and punish those responsible in both peacetime and wartime. The convention defines genocide as acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group – this may include killings, causing serious bodily or mental harm, creating conditions intended to destroy the group, or forcibly transferring children.
The Russian leadership denies targeting civilian infrastructure in Ukraine; however, facts of shelling hospitals, schools, kindergartens, energy facilities, and water supply systems are systematically recorded throughout the country.