23/03/2022 13:20

Rashist forces continue to commit war crimes, turning the civilian population of Ukrainian cities

Today Chernihiv remains completely cut off from the capital.  The occupiers bombed the bridge across the river Desna, through which transported humanitarian aid to the city and evacuated civilians.

The city has no electricity, water, heat and almost no gas, infrastructure is destroyed.

According to local residents, the occupiers are compiling lists of civilians for the "evacuation" to Lgov (Kursk region of Russia).  The racists, cutting off Chernihiv from the capital, turned its inhabitants into hostages.

In the captured Trostyanets of Sumy region, women give birth simply at home, because there is no way to get to the hospital.  In addition, the hospital was repeatedly shelled.  The occupiers stole the last ambulance and it is simply physically impossible to provide medical care to people who cannot get to the hospital on their own.

The fire that broke out at night in Trostyanets cannot be extinguished.  The occupiers did not allow firefighters to reach the site of the fire and extinguish it.

Terror continues in the villages of the Krasnopil community in the Sumy region.  The occupiers go from house to house, take away mobile phones, things and food, occupy schools, houses, and drive people out into the street.  The invaders are forcing people to walk to Russia, but locals refuse under threat of execution.

Such acts qualify as war crimes against civilians, are crimes against humanity and fall within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.

Terror of civilians is a war crime defined by the Statute of the International Military Tribunal and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, and a violation of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.

I call on the international community to use all means of sanctions against the terrorist state of the Russian Federation to stop the military invasion of Ukraine and liberate all Ukrainian cities and towns.