Russia killed thousands of peaceful Ukrainians. The bloodiest terrorist attacks in the Russian Federation in 600 days of full-scale war

600 days ago, Russia carried out a full-scale aggression against Ukraine. During this time, the aggressor country killed more than 9.6 thousand Ukrainian civilians, and more than 17.5 thousand were injured. Such data is provided by the United Nations as of September 2023. However, the number of victims is increasing every day, because the occupying army strikes the civilian population of Ukraine and commits new war crimes.

The most extensive and bloodiest crimes by the Russian Federation against the civilian population of Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022.

Kharkiv

On March 1, 2022, the Russians fired two cruise missiles at the administration building of the Kharkiv Military Administration on Svobody Square. As a result of enemy shelling, 29 people were killed, another 35 were injured. At the time of the attack, the building was occupied by security forces, military personnel and volunteers. In June 2022, the building was recognized by the regional military administration as not subject to restoration.

On the night of March 17, 2022, the Russian military again delivered a powerful blow to the city. The dormitory was shelled with an “Iskander” missile. Already in the morning of the next day, the occupiers launched another series of rocket attacks on the city. Then 25 people died, another 35 were injured.

Izyum

On March 9, 2022, Russian troops dropped an aerial bomb on a residential building in Izyum. Dozens of people were hiding in the basement there. According to official data, 44 people died. The Russians did not allow rescuers to reach the scene of the tragedy for almost three weeks. And they were able to start dismantling the rubble only after a year and a half.

Mariupol

Probably the bloodiest war crime of the Russian Federation is the attack on the drama theater in Mariupol on March 16, 2022.

The exact number of dead is still unknown and is unlikely to be established – the occupiers, after capturing the city, demolished the theater building to hide the traces of their crimes. At the time of the attack, hundreds of peaceful residents of Mariupol, who lost their homes due to shelling by the Russian army, were hiding there. Previously, the attack on the theater claimed the lives of about 600 people.

In a few days, on March 20, 2022, the Russians again dealt a bloody blow to Mariupol. The occupiers dropped bombs on Art School No. 12 in the Left Bank district of Mariupol, where about 400 Mariupol residents – women, children and the elderly – were hiding. The exact number of victims is unknown.

Mykolaiv

In Mykolaiv, on March 29, 2022, an enemy rocket partially destroyed the building of the regional state administration. The impact fell on the fourth floor of the building, leaving a large hole from the ninth to the first floor in its central part, as a result of which a third of the nine-story building was completely destroyed, and the rest is in a state of disrepair. At the same time, 37 people died and 36 were injured.

Researchers from the Truth Hounds organization came to the conclusion that, with a high probability, a 3M-14 type cruise missile was used to strike the building of the regional government, which was launched from the Kalibr-NK missile complex on the Admiral Essen frigate of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy, which 29 In March 2022, he was in the waters of the Black Sea.

Kramatorsk

On April 8, 2022, Russia carried out a terrorist attack at the station in Kramatorsk. Several thousand people, mostly women and children, were waiting for the evacuation train, and at that moment the Russian Federation struck with two rockets with cluster warheads from the Tochka U complex. At that time, 61 people died and 121 were injured at the station.

Human Rights Watch found 32 explosion sites scattered over an area of ​​55,000 square meters. Debris was stuck in steel structures even tens of meters from the impact sites.

The Russian occupiers tried to blame Ukraine for the missile attack, saying that the Russian armed forces allegedly did not have ” Tochka U” in their arsenal for a long time. Russian propaganda also spread reports about the shelling of the Kramatorsk train station by Russian troops, but immediately after the evidence of the mass death of civilians appeared, these records began to be deleted and edited. On May 21, 2022, the Security Service of Ukraine announced that it had received irrefutable evidence of involvement in this shelling of the Russian occupiers.

Thanks to a number of studies of the missile’s flight path and analysis of other aspects, it was possible to establish that the strike was carried out from the territory of the Donetsk region, which has been under Russian occupation since 2014. Experts have confirmed that the Russians used a 9M79-1 guided single-stage solid-fuel rocket with a cartridge charge, which is known as “Point-U”, for the attack. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) emphasized that several complexes with “Point-U” are located in the occupied territories of Donbas and have been used by the invaders for eight years.

Kremenchuk

On June 27, 2022, the Russian army fired a rocket at the Amstor shopping center in Kremenchuk. At the time of the attack, there were more than a thousand civilians. 22 people died, almost 70 more were injured.

Chasiv Yar

The rocket attack on the city of Chasiv Yar was carried out on the evening of July 9, 2022 by the armed forces of the Russian Federation. As a result of the attack, 48 people died, including one child. Two five-story residential buildings were partially destroyed, in one of which two entrances were filled up.

The strike was made from BM-27 “Uragan” installations. Rescue and search operations continued until the morning of July 14, 2022. Rescuers dismantled about 525 tons of destroyed elements of the building. 323 employees of the State Emergency Service were involved.

Olenivka

On the night of July 29, 2022, the Russian Federation committed a terrorist attack, setting off an explosion in the barracks of the penal colony in Olenivka, which housed Ukrainian prisoners of war. At least 53 Ukrainian defenders of Azovstal were killed and more than 130 were injured. At the same time, according to the Russians, there were 193 people in the barracks. The explosion in the Olenivka colony was caused by the use of a reactive thermobaric grenade launcher.

The Main Directorate of Intelligence later reported that the organizers and executors of the terrorist attack were the illegal armed formation of the “Wagner” PMC, which acted on the orders of its curator Yevgeny Prigozhin, but the murders were not approved by the Russian Ministry of Defense. From the beginning, the Russian terrorist forces did not intend to exchange captured Ukrainian soldiers, but instead subjected them to torture.

Militants of the terrorist group “DPR”, mercenaries of the “Wagner” PMC, and the FSB of the Russian Federation participated in the torture. So the explosion that occurred in Olenivka on July 29, 2022, was a way to hide improper conditions and criminal forms of interrogation.

Vinnitsa

On July 14, 2022, Russians killed 29 people in Vinnytsia. Two enemy rockets hit the cultural center where a charity concert was planned, the third hit the square near the medical center. Dozens of people ended up in a fiery hell. Four-year-old Lisa was among the dead. Footage of her bloodied baby carriage then flew around the world. Doctors were able to save her mother.

Chaplinе

On the Independence Day of Ukraine, August 24, 2022, the Russians launched a missile attack on passenger cars at the Chaplіne railway station in the Dnipropetrovsk region. 25 people died, another 31 were injured. Among the victims are train passengers, people who were in cars near the railway, and residents of a house located nearby.

Dnipro

The tragedy in the Dnipro, which claimed the lives of 46 people, happened on January 14, 2023. On Saturday, when most residents were at home, Russia hit a high-rise building on the embankment with an Kh-22 missile. Another 80 people were injured. The rescue operation lasted 69 hours.

27-year-old Kateryna Zelenska was under the rubble for almost a day. She is hearing impaired, so she could not call for help. In the tragedy, the woman lost her husband and one-year-old son, and she herself was miraculously saved.

Zaporizhzhia

The Russians more than once inflicted bloody blows on Zaporizhzhia. One of the most massive was on August 30, 2022, when the Russians fired at a civilian convoy leaving Zaporizhzhia. Then people gathered at the checkpoint to visit their relatives in the temporarily occupied territory. At that moment, the Russians fired 16 missiles at civilians using the S-300 anti-aircraft missile complex. 32 people died, another 86 were injured.

Also, on October 6, 2022, the Russians raided the residential sector while people were sleeping. Then 19 residents died. Subsequently, on October 9, 2022, the Russian invaders attacked the city, using 12 missiles. Almost all of them hit residential buildings. 17 people died, another 89 were injured.

Groza

On October 5, 2023, Russians attacked the village of Groza, Kupyan district, Kharkiv region. The blow fell on the cafe, where the memorial dinner was held. As a result of shelling, 59 local residents died. It is worth noting that the Russians killed every tenth inhabitant of the village of Groza in the Kupyan region: according to open data, 501 people lived there. The missile strike was very accurate.

Later, after the strike, the first footage appeared after the Russian missile attack on a cafe and a shop in the village of Groza.

On October 11, the Security Service of Ukraine exposed two traitors who were correcting a Russian missile attack on the village of Groza in the Kharkiv region. Two brothers who went over to the side of the invaders turned out to be mute.

Already on the eve of the liberation of the region, both traitors together with their families fled to the Russian Federation, where they continued to work in the country of the aggressor country. On the instructions of the Russians, they remotely began to form their own network of informants in the controlled territory of Ukraine.

Under the guise of friendly conversations and correspondence in the messenger, the traitors asked people for information about the deployment of the Defense Forces and mass events in the region. From the beginning of October this year, both involved parties began to collect information about the planned reburial of the fallen Ukrainian defender in the village of Groza. At the same time, they understood that as a result of an enemy attack, civilians – their acquaintances from the village of Groza, including those who provided them with information – would surely die.

Having learned the exact address and time of the peaceful event, Volodymyr Mamon gave this information to the Russians. The Russians used the received information to carry out a targeted attack on a Ukrainian village using the Iskander-M operational-tactical missile complex.

On October 12, police forensics identified all those killed as a result of the rocket attack.

Kryvyi Rih

The city comes under enemy fire systematically, and one of the most massive came on June 13, 2023, when the Russians hit a five-story building and several civilian infrastructure with a rocket, killing 12 people. Another 28 people were injured.

More than 70 residential buildings were damaged. Three schools and buildings of two more educational institutions were also damaged.

Chernihiv

On August 19, 2023, a ballistic missile of the Russian Federation flew into the center of Chernihiv, where at that time an exhibition of drone manufacturers was taking place. As a result of the attack, 208 people were injured, seven more died.

The Security Service of Ukraine previously established the type of Russian missile — it was a 9M727 missile (a cruise missile of the “Iskander” land-based missile complex).

Аt that time, the “Angry Birds” event was held at the Chernihiv Drama Theater, where drone manufacturers and the military were invited. The co-organizer of the event, the head of the Victory Drones project, Maria Berlinska, stated: the event was agreed with the regional military administration, and those who went down to the shelter at the request of the organizers remained alive.

Uman

23 people died as a result of a rocket attack on a high-rise building in Uman (Cherkasy Region) on the night of April 28, 2023. The youngest victim was one and a half years old. The Russians almost completely destroyed one entrance — that’s 27 apartments.

Belogorivka

In Bilogorivka (Luhansk region), the Russians dropped an aerial bomb on a school at a time when local residents were hiding there. The tragedy happened on May 7, 2022.

Since the blow was very powerful, there was practically no chance for people to survive. 60 people died, another 27 were injured.

During the 600 days of the full-scale war, the investigators of the National Police recorded more than 97,700 criminal proceedings on the facts of war crimes committed by the Russian Federation. According to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ihor Klymenko, employees of the State Emergency Service went to emergency situations more than 319,000 times. More than 12,000 people were rescued, including more than 5,600 from the rubble of buildings destroyed by the Russian Federation.