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On 3 March 2022, the nearby villages of Zatoka and Bilenke were shelled, killing at least one civilian in Bilenke. On 23 April, a Russian missile strike hit two residential buildings, killing eight civilians and wounding 18 or 20. One missile that struck a residential building killed a three-month old baby, the mother, and the baby's maternal grandmother.
On 27 February 2022, Amnesty International stated that it had analysed evidence showing that Russian cluster munitions from a 220 mm BM-27 Uragan rocket had hit a preschool in Okhtyrka where civilians were taking shelter on 25 February, killing three, including a child.
On 14 March 2022, Russian troops carried out two airstrikes against the Rivnenska TV Tower, as a result of which 21 people were killed and 9 were injured. Rockets hit the television tower and administrative buildings nearby. On 25 June, a rocket attack was carried out on civilian infrastructure in the city of Sarny, at least four people were killed and seven others were injured.
On 14 January 2023, a Russian Kh-22 type missile hit a nine-story residential building in Dnipro on the Naberezhna Peremohy St [uk], Sobornyi District in the right-bank part of the city, destroying one entrance and 236 apartments. On 19 January the official casualty rate was stated as 46 people killed, 80 injured (12 in critical condition) and 11 people reported missing. 14 children were reported among the injured, and 39 inhabitants were rescued.
Destroyed residential buildings in Borodianka, March 2022
As Russian forces fought in and near Kyiv, Borodianka, was targeted by numerous Russian airstrikes. Most of the buildings in the town were destroyed, including almost all of its main street. Russian bombs struck the centers of buildings and caused them to collapse while the frames remained standing. Many civilians were also reportedly killed by cluster munitions during the attacks. Oleksiy Reznikov, minister of defense, said many residents were buried alive by airstrikes and lay dying for up to a week. Some residents hid in caves for 38 days.
Only a few hundred residents remained in Borodianka by the time the Russians withdrew, with roughly 90% of residents having fled, and an unknown number dead in the rubble. Borodianka's mayor estimated at least 200 dead.
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During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian authorities and armed forces have committed war crimes by carrying out deliberate attacks against civilian targets and indiscriminate attacks in densely populated areas.The Russian military exposed the civilian population to unnecessary and disproportionate harm by using cluster munitions and by firing other explosive weapons with wide-area effects such as bombs, missiles, heavy artillery shells and multiple launch rockets. As of the beginning of July 2023, the attacks had resulted in the documented deaths of between 9,300and 16,500 civilians. On 22 April 2022, the UN reported that 92.3% of civilian fatalities were attributable to the Russian armed forces.
On 5 July 2022, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Michelle Bachelet reported that most of the civilian casualties documented by her office had been caused by the Russian army's repeated use of explosive weapons in populated areas. Bachelet said that the heavy civilian toll from the use of such indiscriminate weapons and tactics had become "indisputable". From 24 February 2022 to 30 June 2023, OHCHR assessed that 90.5% of all civilian fatalities were killed by explosive weapons with wide area effects, and that 84.2% of them were recorded on the Ukrainian-controlled territory. El País estimated that by March 2023 the Russian forces were firing at a rate of between 600,000 and 1.8 million shells per month.
Reports on the use of cluster munitions raised concerns about the high numbers of civilian casualties and the long-lasting danger of unexploded ordnance. According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, weapons equipped with cluster munitions have been used both by Russian armed forces and pro-Russian separatists, as well as to a lesser degree by Ukrainian armed forces.
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Study finds Russia deliberately targeting schools in Kharkiv There's a strong feeling in Kharkiv that schools and other educational facilities have been deliberately targeted by Russian missiles as a way of eroding Ukrainian culture and identity.
When you look at the numbers, it's hard to argue against this theory. "Six-hundred-and-thirty-four educational institutions have been destroyed or damaged throughout the network," says Oleksiy Litvinov, the director of the Kharkiv Department of Science and Education. "Among them, almost the majority are institutions of general secondary education, that is, schools.
To date, the number of them destroyed and damaged in the entire region is almost 500." "Universities, academies, schools, institutes and kindergartens, 44 per cent of these are damaged or destroyed. Among them, 74 were destroyed in total." "Sixty killed in Russian airstrike on Ukraine school " Russia bombs school where flood evacuees were sheltering after Zelenskyy visits Kherson There are reports of multiple casualties, with eyewitness telling POLITICO: ‘They are shelling evacuation spots.’
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Bombing of Chernihiv
On 3 March 2022, six unguided aerial bombs were filmed falling in a residential area in Chernihiv. Analysis by Amnesty International found that (at least) eight bombs fell. Two schools (No.18 and No.21) and 8 private houses in the intersection between the Viacheslava Chornovila and Kruhova streets were destroyed, 7 more houses were also heavily damaged. Local emergency services recorded 38 men and 9 women killed (47 in total) by the bombing and 18 people injured. As Amnesty International was unable to identify a legitimate military target nearby, it said the attack could be a war crime.
On 16 March 2022, a Russian attack killed 14 civilians who were waiting in a line for bread in the city.
Chaplyne railway station strike
On 24 August 2022, the Independence Day of Ukraine, Russian forces struck Chaplyne, damaging a railway station, a utility building, and a residential neighborhood. Several passenger rail cars were set on fire and destroyed. Ukrainian sources described multiple rockets or missiles being used in several attacks. At least 25 people (including 2 children) died and about 31 were injured.
Vuhledar cluster bomb attack
On 24 February 2022, Vuhledar was attacked with an 9M79 Tochka missile, which landed next to a hospital and killed four civilians and injured ten.
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Siege of Mariupol
Between 1–2 March 2022, Russian artillery reportedly shelled a densely populated neighbourhood in the city for nearly 15 hours, causing significant destruction. On 16 March the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reported that Russian forces continued to commit war crimes in Mariupol including "targeting civilian infrastructure". On 18 March, Lieutenant General James Hockenhull, Chief of Defence Intelligence for the United Kingdom (UK), described "continued targeting of civilians in Mariupol". As of 20 March local authorities have estimated that at least 2,300 people were killed during the siege.
On 9 March 2022, the Children's and Maternity Hospital No. 3, a hospital complex functioning both as a children's hospital and maternity ward, was bombed several times by Russian forces during a ceasefire, killing at least four people and injuring at least seventeen
On 20 March 2022, Ukrainian authorities announced that Russian troops had bombed an art school in the city where hundreds (about 400) were sheltering. The Mariupol City Council made the announcement through the instant messaging service Telegram, highlighting that many of those sheltering in the school were women, children and elderly .
On 16 March, Russian forces are shelling civilian areas in Mariupol. Artillery hit numerous locations, including a swimming pool building and the Donetsk Regional Drama Theatre that was being used as an air raid shelter with a large number of civilians inside, the building was reduced to rubble. The bomb shelter in the basement of the theatre survived the bombing, but many people were still trapped underneath the burning rubble. A member of the Ukrainian parliament from Mariupol, Dmytro Gurin, said that the rescue efforts were hampered due to continued attacks on the area by Russian forces. On 4 May, Associated Press published an investigation with evidence pointing to 600 dead in the airstrike. Many survivors estimated around 200 people–including rescuers–escaping through the main exit or one side entrance; the other side and the back were crushed. Estimates of civilian deaths vary, ranging from at least a dozen (Amnesty International) to 600 (Associated Press)
During shelling of Mariupol by Russian forces, a number of attempts to establish a humanitarian evacuation corridor to evacuate civilians from the city were made, but failed when the corridor was targeted by Russian forces. On 5 March, a five-hour ceasefire was declared, but evacuations were quickly halted after shelling continued during the declared time. The next day, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) announced that a second attempt to establish an evacuation corridor had failed.
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On 8 April 2022 a missile attack on the railway station building in Kramatorsk. Between 1000 and 4000 civilians, mainly women and children, were present at the station awaiting evacuation from the region, which was being subjected to heavy Russian shelling. The attack left at least 60 dead and 110+ wounded.
On 9 July 2022, a missile strike on two residential buildings in Chasiv Yar was carried out by the Russian Armed Forces at 21:17 local time. At least 48 people were killed
On 14 April 2023, on Orthodox Christian Good Friday, Russian forces launched eight S-300 missiles at Sloviansk. One struck a five-storey residential building, killing 15 civilians, including a child, and wounding 24 .
On 3 March 2022, Russian forces bombed the central hospital in Izium, Eight people died and the hospital sustained "significant damage". On 8 March, the same recently refurbished hospital in the city was destroyed during shelling, this was followed on 11 March by an attack to a psychiatric hospital. On 15 September 2022, after Ukrainian forces had retaken Izium, several mass graves were discovered of more than 440 bodies buried in a forest northeast of the city. among the dead, some had reportedly died as a result of shelling and airstrikes.
According to a HRW report published on 4 March, on 28 February, at around 10:00 AM, Russian forces fired cluster munitions with Grad rockets into at least three different residential areas in Kharkiv, killing at least nine civilians and injuring another 37. The city's mayor, Ihor Terekhov, said that four people were killed when they left a shelter to get water and a family of two parents and three children were burned alive in their car. The locations hit were residential buildings and a playground, dispersed between Industrialnyi and Shevchenkivskyi District.
On 3 May 2023, Russian artillery struck a supermarket, a train station and residential buildings Kherson, killing 23 people and wounding 46. Among those killed were three engineers repairing damage inflicted on the power grid in earlier Russian strikes.
On 27 June 2022, the Russian Armed Forces fired two Kh-22 anti-ship missiles into central Kremenchuk, Poltava Oblast, hitting the Amstor shopping mall. A fire broke out, and, according to Dmytro Lunin, Governor of Poltava Oblast, the attack killed at least 20 people and injured at least 56.
On 6 March 2022, the Russian Armed Forces repeatedly shelled an intersection in Irpin that hundreds of civilians were using to escape to Kyiv, whilst a Ukrainian artillery position was located nearby. They killed at least eight Ukrainian civilians (including 2 children).
According to preliminary information, on the morning of 1 July 2022 three Tu-22M3 strategic bombers of the Russian Air Force flew from the Volgograd Oblast to Crimea and after 1,200 kilometres (750 mi) fired three Kh-22s, supersonic anti-ship missiles designed for use against aircraft carriers, into a 9-store apartment building and a recreational center in the settlement of Serhiivka, Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion, Odesa Oblast. A missile hit the apartment, one section of the building was completely destroyed. The fire also spread from the apartment building to an attached store. At least 16 Ukrainian civilians were killed in the residential building. Two missiles hit the recreational center, killing at least 5 (including a 12-year-old boy). 38 more were also wounded, including 6 children .
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Bilohorivka school bombing
On 7 May 2022, Russian forces bombed a school in Bilohorivka where about ninety people were seeking shelter from the ongoing fighting during the Battle of Sievierodonetsk. The building caught on fire and trapped large numbers of people inside. At least 30 people were rescued. Two people were confirmed to have been killed, but Governor of Luhansk Oblast Serhiy Haidai said that the 60 remaining people were believed to have been killed.
Bombing of Mykolaiv
Main article: Mykolaiv cluster bombing
Cluster munitions were repeatedly used also on Mykolaiv during separate attacks on 7, 11 and 13 March 2022, causing civilian casualties and extensive destruction of non-military objects. In the 13 March attack nine civilians, including two children, were killed and 13 injured while waiting in line on the street at a cash machine. The explosions also damaged houses and civilian buildings.
1 July 2022 Russian missiles were fired into a 9-store apartment building and a recreational center in the settlement of Serhiivka, Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion, Odesa Oblast. A missile hit the apartment, one section of the building was completely destroyed. The fire also spread from the apartment building to an attached store. at least 16 Ukrainian civilians were killed in the residential building. Two missiles hit the recreational center, killing at least 5 (including a 12-year-old boy). 38 more were also wounded, including 6 children.
Uman apartment block strike
On 28 April 2023, Russian forces launched 23 cruise missiles and two suicide drones at targets across Ukraine. Two missiles hit an apartment block in Uman, killing 23 people, including four children. Nine other residential buildings were damaged in the city. Shortly after, the Russian Defense Ministry posted a photo of a missile launch on its Telegram channel with the caption "Right on target".
14 July 2022 Missiles were hitting Vinnytsia
two missiles struck civilian buildings, including a medical center, offices, stores and residential buildings in the center of the city. The attacks killed at least 28 people (including three children), and injured at least 202 others.
Bombing of Zhytomyr
Emergency servicemen carry a dead body found under rubble in Malyn city, Zhytomyr Oblast, after a Russian airstrike on 8 March 2022.
On 1 March 2022, late in the evening, Russian troops hit a residential sector of the city. About 10 residential buildings on Shukhevych street and around the city hospital were damaged. A few bombs were dropped on the city. As a result, at least two Ukrainian civilians were killed and three were injured. On 2 March, shells hit the regional perinatal center and some private houses. On 4 March, rockets hit the 25th Zhytomyr school destroying half of the school.
Bombing of Zaporizhzhia
Several attacks from 12 August to 9 October. Zaporizhzhia was hit by eight Russian rockets in its industrial and residential areas. Followed by another rocket attack in the morning, striking the regional center near the Dnieper river.[304] Two days later the city was again hit by two Russian rockets during the night, followed by another five rockets attacks in the daytime. The regional center was hit an additional two times while other infrastructure and residential houses were damaged, two of the projectiles landed in a field on the outskirts of the city.
The following day on 22 September, nine more rockets were fired at the city. One of the projectiles hit a hotel in the city's central park, killing one civilian and injuring five others. An electrical substation and several high-rise residential buildings were also damaged. Later that same day, ten more rockets struck the city and damaged about a dozen private homes.
At 5.08am on 6 October, seven Russian rockets were fired towards the city center of Zaporizhzhia. Several residential buildings were destroyed and fires broke out due to the attack, killing 17 civilians and injuring 12 more. Zaporizhzhia was attacked once more during the night of 7 October, but this time by Iranian Shahed-136 kamikaze drones used by the Russian forces. The attack resulted in the deaths of 12 civilians with a further 13 injured and 15 missing
Around 3am on 9 October, 12 Russian tactical missiles were launched against civilian infrastructure in Zaporizhzhia. Most missiles hit both high-rise buildings and residential houses, with a nine-story building being partially destroyed after the attack. A further five high-rise buildings, 20 residential houses and four schools were damaged alongside 20 cars. A total of 13 civilians were killed in the attack, while 89 more were injured. The following day at 1.45am, about seven Russian S-300 anti-aircraft missiles struck the city resulting in the deaths of eight civilians. On 23 November, Russian missile strikes destroyed a maternity ward in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region, in the town of Vilnyansk, killing a newborn baby.
On 30 September 2022, a Russian S-300 missile hit a civilian convoy of civilian cars near Zaporizhzhia killing 32 people, including a three-month-old child. and injuring around 88. People in cars had gathered in a logistic hub to register for entering Russian-occupied territories in the south, such as the cities of Mariupol and Melitopol, and they were planning either to return home or to meet relatives and take them back to government-controlled territory. According to a spokesperson for the local governor's office, the attack on civilians was deliberate as no military objective was placed near the site. It occurred hours before Russia formally annexed four regions of Ukraine, including Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
On 9 October 2022, six missiles were launched at a residential area in Zaporizhzhia, destroying an apartment building and damaging 70 other buildings. The attack resulted in the deaths of 13 people, including a child. Another 89 were injured, 11 of whom are children.
On 10 October, at 1.45am, about seven Russian S-300 anti-aircraft missiles struck the city resulting in the deaths of eight civilians. Later on the day, an apartment block was destroyed and a kindergarten was damaged by shelling. 5 people were killed and 8 were injured in that shelling.
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- For the people of good will, it is obvious that one mustn’t offend the little ones. This is something mothers usually teach their children, so they know not to mistreat others. But as it turned out, generally accepted moral standards are not followed by the soldiers of the Russian army. This is evidenced by their military strategy regarding the civilian population of Ukraine: murder, torture, rape and pillage.
Russia violated Ukrainian territorial borders, but above that – it crossed the moral lines, which are determined by international scope of humanitarian law. The number of crimes against humanity commited by them is growing every day. The most egregious of them – are crimes against children. Children have become a literal target for airstrikes and machine gun fire. Despite the word “CHILDREN” (“ДЕТИ” in Russian) was written in capital letters on the asphalt near drama theater in Mariupol – Russian soldiers still targeted it, killing more than 300 hiding civilians. Also, the word “Children” is often written on the cars of those trying to evacuate – yet they are still shot at by Russian soldiers.
- Donbass: As of September 8, 2022, 383 children died as a result of full-scale invasion and more than 742 have been injured, 239 were missing and 7420 were deported.
- “Mother buried 13-year-old Elisey not far from Kyiv. The boy lived in an ancient village known since the 17th century, a village with a good name – Victory (Peremoga). For one and a half months, Russia tried to capture Kyiv, so a large number of cities and villages in the Kyiv region were occupied. This old village was not spared a similar fate. The occupation lasted from February 28 to March 30, 2022. On March 11, during the demand for evacuation from the village of Peremoga along the agreed "green" corridor, the occupiers shot a column of civilians, which consisted exclusively of women and children. As a result, 7 people died. Among them was Elisey. “
At first, he walked with his mother and three-year-old brother, the boy pulled on a white T-shirt over his jacket, as a signal to the military that those were peaceful people in front of them. Then the family drove in a convoy of five cars. The Russians definitely saw that only women and children were in the cars. They even were waved at. And then the column... was shot at.
- Mined houses, toys and household items are a characteristic feature of the Russian strategy for the destruction of the civilian population. For example, in Bucha, the Russians planted explosives in the piano. The attentiveness of the mother, who noticed that her daughter’s awards were not placed on the piano in the same way as before, saved the child from death.
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Inheriting Stalin: Filtration Camps and Forced Deportations of Children
The idea of “denazification and demilitarization” of Ukrainians is not new and was not born in the head of the current ruler of Russia. 75 years ago, from the west of Ukraine to Siberia and Kazakhstan, Stalin evicted 79 thousand Ukrainians, 35 thousand of them were women, 24 thousand were children. The deportation was part of a consistent strategy for the destruction of Ukrainians as a national community, which was carried out by the Soviet authorities through the Holodomors, the Executed Renaissance and the total Russification of the people and their elites.
On May 31, 2022, Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova reported during her visit to The Hague that Ukrainian law enforcement officers open 200-300 criminal cases on war crimes every day. Approximately 600 suspects have already been identified, 80 of them are already being prosecuted.
The suspects are the top military and political leadership, Russian propaganda agents, and others involved.
Some of the criminal cases have been filed against the events in the east of the country, where fierce fighting between the Ukrainian and Russian military is currently ongoing. Prosecutors are investigatingforced deportation of people, including children, to different parts of Russia. Due to ongoing hostilities, investigating crimes is sometimes difficult, however investigators managed to interview evacuated Ukrainians and released prisoners of war.
Daria Gerasimchuk, the President’s Commissioner for Children’s Rights and Children’s Rehabilitation, said that according to data from open sources, as of June 1, 2022, more than 234,000 children crossed the border towards Russia and the ORDLO (the uncontrolled by Ukrainian authorities territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions). Among them are about 2 thousand orphans and children deprived of parental care. These are forcibly deported, forcibly relocated children either to temporarily occupied territories, or to the Russian Federation, or to the Republic of Belarus. Gerasimchuk emphasized that such actions are illegal, prohibited by the Geneva Convention, international law, and Ukraine will fight for every child.
According to the commissioner for children’s rights, currently more than 7.5 million Ukrainian children are suffering from war, and it is not only about physical injuries. It is about a violation of the psychological, psycho-emotional state, and an absolute violation of all the rights of the child. “The actions taken by the Russian Federation in relation to Ukrainian children have all the signs of genocide of the Ukrainian people,” Gerasimchuk emphasized.
And what awaits the deported Ukrainians on the territory of Russia? The union of “fraternal nations” and a well-fed, well-arranged life in any Russian city? By no means. Do not forget that deportation is not a charity, but a punitive action.
This is confirmed by the telephone conversation intercepted by the Security Service of Ukraine of a Russian military man in Ukraine – with his wife. Yulia Kopytova complains to her husband Yury about the Ukrainian children brought to Russia who do not want to celebrate May 9, a sacred day of victory for Russians. The children explain this as a difference in values and insist that “this is not their holiday”. The woman describes in detail to her husband-occupier how she would punish them for this if she could. In particular, “I would inject them with drugs” and “carve stars on their backs”.
Another tactic Russia uses against Ukrainian children – is to separate them from their culture. Occupiers aim to destroy historical memory and the national identity of the child, as well as to adapt them to the Russian school curriculum in the occupied territories, including Mariupol in the new school year. The plan is to teach these three subjects: “Russian language and literature”, “History of the Fatherland” (Russian) and “Mathematics”.
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@annmowatt7547 "Exactly, had this been the US they would have bombed Kiev to smithereens by now."
The 1999–2000 battle of Grozny was the siege and assault of the Chechen capital Grozny by Russian forces, lasting from late 1999 to early 2000. This siege and assault of the Chechen capital resulted in the widespread devastation of Grozny. In 2003, the United Nations designated Grozny as the most destroyed city on Earth due to the extensive damage it suffered. The battle had a devastating impact on the civilian population. It is estimated that between 5,000 and 8,000 civilians were killed during the siege, making it the bloodiest episode of the Second Chechen War.
The Russian forces relied heavily on rocket artillery such as BM-21 Grad, BM-27 Uragan, BM-30 Smerch, ballistic missiles (SCUD, OTR-21 Tochka), cluster bombs and fuel air explosives. (The TOS-1, a multiple rocket launcher with thermobaric weapon warheads, played a particularly prominent role in the assault). These weapons wore down the Chechens, both physically and psychologically, and air strikes were also used to attack fighters hiding in basements; such attacks were designed for maximum psychological pressure.
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