On the morning of June 3, Russian troops carried out yet another shelling of Kharkiv, resulting in injuries to residents of the city and damage to civilian infrastructure. According to the head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration, Oleg Synegubov, the strikes were aimed at the Kholodnohirskiy and Osnovyansky districts.
This is reported by Finway
Details of the shelling and its consequences for the residents
After the rocket attack, a fire broke out in Kharkiv, damaging a hangar and two vehicles. Initially, one person was reported injured, but the number of casualties later rose to six. According to Oleg Synegubov, among the injured, four individuals sustained blast injuries and wounds from glass shards. Three people were hospitalized, all in moderate condition. Two others, a 53-year-old man and a 75-year-old woman, experienced acute stress reactions and received medical assistance at the scene.
“Four of the injured – men aged 18, 66, 68 and a 58-year-old woman – suffered blast injuries and glass wounds. Their condition is moderate, and three people required hospitalization.”
Russian attacks and signs of genocidal actions
The Russian army regularly attacks Ukrainian cities using various types of weapons, such as strike drones, missiles, guided bombs, and multiple launch rocket systems. These strikes target not only military facilities but also civilian infrastructure, including residential buildings, hospitals, energy, and water supply facilities.
International human rights organizations and Ukrainian authorities classify such actions as war crimes and deliberate attempts to destroy Ukrainian identity. Systematic shelling of vital facilities, depriving people of electricity, heat, water, medical assistance, and other basic resources exhibits signs of genocide under the provisions of the 1948 UN Convention. Experts and human rights defenders emphasize that Russia is pursuing and destroying people with pro-Ukrainian positions in the occupied territories, deporting children, and deliberately destroying Ukraine’s cultural heritage.
The Russian authorities and the president of Russia have repeatedly publicly denied the existence of the Ukrainian people as a separate nation and called for its destruction. At the same time, official Moscow rejects accusations of deliberate strikes against the civilian population and social infrastructure facilities.