As a result of a missile attack by Russian forces on an industrial infrastructure facility in Zaporizhzhia, one person has died and three others have been injured. This was reported by the head of the Zaporizhzhia regional administration, Ivan Fedorov, on May 15.
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“A tank with fuel and lubricants was damaged, and a fire broke out. As a result of the attack, one person was killed, and three others were injured,” he stated.
Details of the Attack and Condition of the Injured
According to the State Emergency Service, as a result of the strike, a truck and passenger cars caught fire, and a fuel tank was also damaged. The head of the region added that all three injured are men aged 54, 60, and 63. They sustained blast injuries and are in serious condition under constant medical supervision.
Earlier that same day, it became known that two more people were injured as a result of a Russian attack on Vilniansk.
Scale of Shelling and Qualification of Actions by the Russian Federation
Russian forces systematically use various types of weapons — strike drones, missiles, aerial bombs, and multiple rocket launch systems — to attack Ukrainian cities and civilian infrastructure facilities across all regions of Ukraine.
The Ukrainian authorities, along with international organizations, consider these strikes to be war crimes committed by the Russian Federation, emphasizing their deliberate nature. The shelling of vital infrastructure for the population and healthcare facilities, aimed at depriving people of electricity, heat, water supply, communication, medical assistance, and other necessary living conditions, exhibits signs of genocidal actions.
In addition to the physical destruction or injury of civilians, such actions are accompanied by public calls from Russian officials for the destruction of Ukrainians as an ethnic group, persecution of patriotic citizens in occupied territories, destruction of Ukrainian culture, deportation of children, and deliberate alteration of their identity. All these facts, according to legal experts and researchers, meet the definition of genocide according to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1948.
The Convention defines genocide as acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. Signs of genocide include killings, causing serious bodily or mental harm, creating conditions calculated to bring about physical destruction, preventing births within the group, forcibly transferring children to another group, and public incitement to such acts.
The Russian leadership denies strikes on civilian infrastructure and the deaths of peaceful residents as a result of actions by the Russian army during the full-scale war against Ukraine.