30/05/2022 17:00

Commissioner: rashists continue to commit war crimes against civilians in Zaporizhia, Donetsk and Luhansk regions

the rashists continue to fire on peaceful settlements of Zaporizhia, Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, destroying residential buildings and infrastructure.

At night, the villages of Zaporozhets and Yuliivka of the Novooleksandrivka village territorial community of the Zaporizhzhya district came under enemy attack.  The number of damaged houses and the degree of damage are being clarified.

Windows and doors were broken in the houses, the slate roofing was damaged.  Adjacent territories, garages and other outbuildings were destroyed.

According to the regional authorities, 25,466 consumers in 82 settlements of Zaporizhia oblast were left without electricity due to damage to power supply lines, pylons and equipment.

Without gas supply - 71117 subscribers in 91 settlements of the region.  48 settlements of Berdyansk and Melitopol districts remain disconnected from gas supply due to damage to the main gas pipeline in the Donetsk region.

Lysychansk and Ustynivka in the Luhansk region suffer from enemy aircraft and artillery.  The rashists smashed the cinema building with an air strike.  The russians are systematically destroying Severodonetsk together with its residents, yesterday, about 13 high-rise buildings were damaged.

In total, there are more than 60 destructions per day in the region, in particular in the settlements of Hirska and Popasnyanska communities.

Regarding the destruction of the housing stock: Severodonetsk - 13 houses, Gorske - 11, Toshkivka - seven, Vrubivka - six, Nyrkove - two.

The shelling of civilian objects is a war crime under Article 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

I appeal to the UN Commission for  Investigation Human Rights Violations during russia's military invasion of Ukraine to take into account these facts of crimes and human rights violations in Ukraine.

I call on international partners to provide weapons to fight the aggressor country of russia!