Rescue operations are ongoing in Kharkiv at the site of the missile strike on a five-story residential building that occurred on the morning of March 7. According to the head of the regional military administration, Oleg Synegubov, the death toll has risen to seven people.
This is reported by Finway
“The body of the seventh victim has been recovered from the rubble. Search operations continue in Kharkiv.”
Among the victims are children and teenagers
As reported by Synegubov, among the deceased are two children: the bodies of a boy and a 13-year-old girl were found at the scene of the tragedy. The strike destroyed the entrance of a building in the Kyiv district of the city, and a neighboring residential building was also damaged. At least 10 people are known to be injured, including a 6-year-old boy, an 11-year-old boy, and a 17-year-old girl.
Massive shelling and signs of genocide
Russian troops are systematically continuing to attack Ukrainian cities with various types of weaponry, including strike drones, missiles, and multiple launch rocket systems. Ukrainian authorities and international organizations classify these actions as war crimes committed by the Russian Federation, emphasizing their targeted nature.
Shelling of vital infrastructure systems, as well as healthcare facilities, deprives people of electricity, heat, water, communication, and medical assistance, showing signs of genocidal actions. Human rights defenders and genocide researchers indicate that Russia is committing crimes during the large-scale war that fall under the definition of genocide. These include public statements about the destruction of Ukrainians, targeted attacks on civilian infrastructure, persecution of pro-Ukrainian individuals in occupied territories, extermination of the intelligentsia, and the deportation of children to change their identity.
The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1948, places an obligation on 149 participating countries to prevent acts of genocide and to punish them in both wartime and peacetime. According to the Convention, genocide is defined as actions aimed at the complete or partial destruction of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.
Signs of genocide include the killing of members of a particular group, causing them serious bodily harm, creating conditions aimed at their destruction, obstructing childbirth, and the forcible transfer of children from one group to another. Public incitement to commit such acts is also a sign of genocide.
The Russian leadership denies targeting civilian infrastructure in Ukrainian cities and villages, as well as the killing of civilians and the destruction of hospitals, schools, kindergartens, and energy and water supply facilities during the full-scale war.