21/03/2022 14:56

Commissioner: In Trostyanets, Sumy Region, racists rob, torture and kill local people

As a result of the Russian military invasion, some settlements in Ukraine have been under occupation and on the verge of survival for three weeks now.

The city of Trostyanets in the Sumy region has been occupied inside and completely surrounded on all sides from the outside.  Along the perimeter of the city there are enemy checkpoints, which are a great risk to life.

Artillery installations were installed near the station, other equipment was placed in the city between administrative buildings, near shops, and residential buildings, realizing that there would be no adequate response to this equipment from the Armed Forces of Ukraine in this location.

Fearing Ukrainian air strikes and artillery, the occupiers are forcing civilians to sit on the streets at night near the equipment of the racist army as a human shield.

In the city, the occupiers are killing civilians and destroying civilian infrastructure, mass looting.

The head of the street committee, Hanna Samoilova, was killed, and for several days snipers fired on the street, preventing residents from taking the body for burial.  The other day, a guy who was returning home in the evening was shot dead on the street.  The head of the agricultural enterprise, who was driving to work in the morning, was shot dead.

A grenade was thrown at people on one of the streets.  The blast killed two men.

Three days ago, racist militants fired on a local hospital, which was almost completely destroyed.

Yesterday, heavy artillery fired on residential buildings.  The occupiers actually destroyed several houses and killed three pensioners who lived there.  Several other apartment buildings and a shop were damaged.

The occupiers resorted to mass looting, all shops, ATMs, pharmacies in the city were devastated.

They are actively looting local houses, stealing cars, going into apartments, where they take things, jewelry and food.  If there are no people at home, they stay there overnight.

Torture of civilians by russian militants is nothing but genocide of the Ukrainian people in accordance with the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

I appeal to the International Committee of the Red Cross to take all possible measures to open safe humanitarian corridors in Ukraine for the evacuation of civilians from areas of active hostilities and occupation.

I ask NATO member states to close the skies over Ukraine!

@NATO #closethesky #закрийтенебонадукраіною