As a result of a missile strike by the Russian Federation on Chernihiv on April 2, two people were killed and several others were injured. This was reported by the press service of the city council.
This is reported by Finway
“As of now, there are two fatalities. One minor has been hospitalized,” the statement said.
According to the clarification from the head of the city military administration, Dmytro Bryzhynskyi, among the injured is a 17-year-old girl who sustained injuries from the shockwave. Later, the city council reported two more injured women born in 1995 and 1996, who were near the epicenter of the explosion and suffered blast injuries. All the injured received the necessary medical assistance.
Missile Strike on an Enterprise and Its Consequences
It is known that on April 2, the Russian army struck one of the enterprises in Chernihiv using a ballistic missile. As a result of this attack, in addition to the dead and injured, civilian infrastructure in the city was also damaged. Russian military forces systematically use various types of weapons – strike drones, missiles, aerial bombs, and multiple launch rocket systems – to attack Ukrainian cities and civilian infrastructure across all regions of the country.
Qualification of Russia’s Actions and Signs of Genocide
The Ukrainian authorities, together with international organizations, regard such strikes as war crimes committed by the Russian Federation, emphasizing their targeted nature. Shelling of vital supply systems, healthcare facilities, and other objects that provide basic living conditions is viewed as manifestations of genocidal actions. Experts, human rights defenders, and genocide researchers indicate that during the full-scale war, Russia is committing crimes that may fall under the definition of genocide: these include both direct calls and public statements for the elimination of Ukrainians as a people, as well as mass crimes against civilians, deportation of children, and the destruction of Ukrainian culture, language, and historical artifacts.
It is worth noting that the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted in 1948, obliges all participating states (currently 149) to prevent acts of genocide and punish those responsible in both wartime and peacetime. Genocide is defined as acts aimed at fully or partially destroying a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group through killings, causing serious bodily harm, creating living conditions that are unbearable, preventing childbirth, and forcibly transferring children.
At the same time, the Russian leadership denies the facts of targeted strikes on civilian objects, despite numerous evidence of the destruction of hospitals, schools, kindergartens, energy and water supply facilities, as well as numerous casualties among the civilian population of Ukraine.