22/05/2022 15:48

Commissioner: the enemy turns Severodonetsk into a new Mariupol

The occupiers are trying to surround the Ukrainian-controlled part of Luhansk region, turning it into a ruin of the city, which is protected from invaders.

Enemy attacks are constantly being carried out in many areas, and settlements are being shelled by invaders from artillery and volley fire systems.

The enemy threw all his forces to storm Severodonetsk, on the outskirts of which there are constant battles.  The city is being transformed into a new Mariupol.

Yesterday, the rashists purposefully shelled a school in the basement of which about 200 residents of Severodonetsk have been hiding since the beginning of the war.  Three were killed and three others were injured.

The enemy is trying to capture the highway Lysychansk - Bakhmut, which is called the "road of life".  This will block the evacuation of civilians and the delivery of humanitarian aid.

The killing of civilians, the shelling of peaceful cities and civilian objects by the aggressor's army with weapons strictly prohibited by international humanitarian law are war crimes and crimes against humanity under Articles 7 and 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and gross violations of the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and additional protocols to them.

I appeal to the UN Commission for Investigation Human Rights Violations during the russian 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!