In the Dnipro district of Kherson, Russian military forces launched a drone strike on a civilian vehicle, resulting in casualties among the civilian population.
This is reported by Finway
Details of the Tragedy in Kherson
According to local authorities, initial reports indicated the death of two women aged 63 and 59. Another victim, a 62-year-old man, sustained serious injuries – medics transported him to the hospital with multiple injuries to the chest, abdomen, and limbs, as well as a concussion and traumatic brain injuries. Doctors continue to fight for his life.
Later, the head of the Kherson Regional State Administration, Oleksandr Prokudin, clarified that the 63-year-old woman found without signs of life had been hospitalized and is in critical condition. Medics diagnosed her with blast injuries and multiple wounds to the head, face, torso, and limbs.
“She is in extremely critical condition. The victim has been diagnosed with blast injuries and multiple wounds to the head, face, torso, and limbs. Medics are doing everything possible to save the seriously injured woman from Kherson.”
Situation with Shelling in the Region
In the morning, regional authorities reported that over the past day, one resident had died and five others had been injured as a result of Russian attacks in the Kherson region. It later became known that a 19-year-old boy had also died from strikes by the Russian army the day before, and a 44-year-old man was injured.
Russian military forces regularly use drones, missiles, guided bombs, and multiple rocket launch systems to attack Ukrainian cities and civilian infrastructure across the country.
Ukrainian authorities and international organizations consider these actions by the Russian Federation to be war crimes and emphasize their targeted nature. Attacks on vital infrastructure, healthcare facilities, and depriving people of access to electricity, heat, water, communication, and medical assistance exhibit signs of genocidal actions. Legal experts and genocide researchers highlight systematic crimes against Ukrainians that fall under the definition of genocide, including: deliberately creating intolerable living conditions, public calls for the destruction of the Ukrainian people, persecution of pro-Ukrainian citizens in occupied territories, extermination of the intelligentsia, and the deportation of children to change their identity.
The UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted in 1948, obliges participating countries (of which there are already 149) to prevent and punish such actions both in wartime and in peacetime. According to the document, genocide is defined as the intentional destruction of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group, as well as actions aimed at causing serious bodily harm, creating intolerable living conditions, obstructing childbirth, and forcibly transferring children between groups.
The Russian authorities continue to deny the facts of targeted attacks on Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure, despite numerous evidence of civilian casualties and the destruction of hospitals, schools, kindergartens, energy facilities, and water supply systems.