16/03/2022 14:08

Commissioner: Aggressor troops continue to commit crimes against humanity by brutally killing civilians

The racist army is deliberately killing civilians and shelling civilian infrastructure.

Kharkiv region under mass aviation and artillery shelling.

Emergency rescue operations are underway in Kyivsky, Shevchenkivskyi, Novobavarskyi and Nemyshlyanskyi districts of Kharkiv.  As a result of the artillery strike, several apartments in two high-rise buildings were destroyed.  Rescuers extinguished the fire with a total area of   200 square meters and got out from under the rubble the body of the deceased.

Two women and three men died as a result of artillery shelling on residential buildings in the village of Zolochiv, Kharkiv region.  Three more men were injured.

In Mariupol, the occupiers brutally killed people right on the streets - an elderly man who tried to attract attention so as not to be shot, the occupiers shot close to a tank.  During the evacuation from the occupied village in Kyiv region, the chief bibliographer of the Shevchenko Studies Department of the Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences Oleh Oleksandrovych Kozak and his minor son Yaroslav died.

The German media ZDF Frontal published a video from a drone, which shows how the occupiers shot dead a civilian near Kyiv who raised his hands.

In Fastiv district Kyiv region, the settlement of Markhalivka was hit by an air strike.  There is the destruction of residential buildings.  According to preliminary data, there are dead civilians.

Two people were injured in the shelling of Odessa region's warships.

A 12-storey residential building in the Shevchenkivskyi district in Kyiv on the 12th and technical floors, collapsed due to the wreckage of a rocket, and a neighboring 9-storey building was also partially damaged.  Rescuers evacuated 37 people, including 2 people were injured.

For the first time in Zaporizhia, civilian objects were bombed.  The rockets landed in the area of   the Zaporozhye-2 railway station.  According to preliminary data, no one was killed.  The second rocket landed in the area of   the botanical garden.

In the Donetsk region yesterday, the Russians killed 4 more residents of the region: 2 in Vuhledar and 2 in Verkhnotoretsky.  Today 2 people were injured in Avdiivka and 1 in Oleksandropol.  The exact number of victims in Volnovakha and Mariupol is currently unknown.

In the Luhansk region, the enemy is shelling peaceful cities: Rubizhne and Severodonetsk.  As a result of shelling, 12 houses caught fire in Rbizhne, injuring seven local residents, including one child.  One person died.  In Severodonetsk - seven fires in the residential sector.  The gas pipeline in Lysychansk was cut off again.

In the Sumy region, the Okhtyrka and Sumy districts were shelled by russian artillery.  Information on losses is being clarified.

An air strike on Berdychiv took place in Zhytomyr Region, several buildings were destroyed by the Russians, information on losses is being clarified.

By brutally killing civilians, the aggressor's forces continue to commit crimes against humanity as defined by the Statute of the International Military Tribunal and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, ignoring all the requirements of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.

Every air strike by the aggressor's troops takes dozens of lives of peaceful Ukrainians as long as the skies over our country remain open to enemy fighters and missiles.

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

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