As a result of yet another attack by Russian forces on the Zaporizhzhia region, a 44-year-old resident of the Polohy district was killed. According to Ivan Fedorov, the head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration, the occupiers struck the road near the settlement of Preobrazhenka with an FPV drone. The woman died on the spot from her injuries.
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Death of a Civilian in Vilniansk
Earlier, it was reported that there was another victim among the civilian population of the Zaporizhzhia region. In Vilniansk, a Russian drone attacked an infrastructure facility, resulting in a fire and the death of a 78-year-old local resident.
Systematic Strikes on Ukrainian Cities and Infrastructure
Russian military forces regularly carry out attacks using various types of weapons, including strike drones, missiles, aerial bombs, and multiple launch rocket systems, targeting cities and critical infrastructure in Ukraine. Such shelling poses a direct threat to the lives of civilians and violates the norms of international humanitarian law.
“The Russians struck the road near Preobrazhenka with an FPV drone. The woman died on the spot,” he stated.
The Ukrainian authorities and international organizations classify these actions as war crimes of the Russian Federation, emphasizing their deliberate nature. Particular concern is raised by the shelling of facilities essential for the population’s survival, medical institutions, and electricity and water supply systems, which effectively deprives people of the necessary conditions for life.
Lawyers, genocide researchers, and human rights defenders believe that during this large-scale war, Russia is committing a series of crimes against Ukrainian citizens that may fall under the definition of genocide. Among them are public calls for the destruction of Ukrainians, targeted shelling of life-support systems and medical institutions, persecution and extermination of pro-Ukrainian individuals in occupied territories, deportation of children, attempts to change their identity, and the destruction of Ukrainian cultural heritage.
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 prevent acts of genocide and hold those responsible accountable both during wartime and in peacetime. According to the Convention, genocide is defined as acts aimed at the total or partial destruction of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group, including killings, serious bodily harm, the deliberate creation of conditions calculated to bring about destruction, and the forcible transfer of children.
At the same time, the Russian leadership denies targeting civilian infrastructure in Ukrainian cities and villages, as well as denying the facts of civilian casualties and the destruction of hospitals, schools, kindergartens, energy facilities, and water supply systems.