In the Ship District of Kherson, Russian troops carried out shelling using a multiple launch rocket system, resulting in injuries to a family that was at the playground. The incident was reported by the head of the city military administration, Yaroslav Shanko.
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Details of the shelling and consequences for civilians
The attack occurred around 5:30 PM. According to city authorities, a 36-year-old woman and her two daughters, aged 6 and 3, sustained mine-explosive injuries and numerous shrapnel wounds. The children and their mother were hospitalized. Preliminary reports indicate that as a result of the shelling, the father of this family was killed by Russian forces.
“Ukrainian authorities and international organizations classify these strikes as war crimes of the Russian Federation and emphasize that they are targeted in nature.”
Signs of genocidal actions and international reaction
Russian military forces systematically attack Ukrainian cities and civilian infrastructure using various types of weapons, including kamikaze drones, missiles, aerial bombs, and MLRS. These actions lead to the destruction of life-support systems, hospitals, schools, kindergartens, and leave the population without electricity, heating, water, communication, and medical assistance.
Human rights defenders, researchers, and lawyers point out that during the full-scale war, the Russian Federation is committing crimes that may meet the definition of genocide. Among them are the destruction of individuals with pro-Ukrainian positions in occupied territories, the persecution and abduction of children to change their identity, the destruction of Ukrainian culture and intelligentsia, as well as public calls for the destruction of Ukrainians as a nation.
According to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1948, genocide is recognized as intentional actions aimed at the total or partial destruction of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. To date, 149 countries have joined this Convention, which obliges them to prevent genocide and punish its commission.
The leadership of Russia, for its part, denies involvement in targeted attacks on civilian infrastructure, despite the existence of numerous evidence of destructive shelling of life-support facilities, medical institutions, and educational establishments throughout Ukraine.