Ruthless destruction of Ukraine’s urban infrastructure
After Russia’s treacherous attack on Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the Russian occupation troops mercilessly bombard the territory of Ukraine. On the territories that the enemy does not control, they carry out the destruction of the infrastructure of Ukraine and the genocide of the civilian population. Ignoring all adopted laws and norms of international law, they rampage and wipe out everything in their path.
Russian occupants carried out an air strike on a children’s hospital and maternity hospital in Mariupol
Russian troops launched an airstrike on the center of Mariupol: a maternity hospital, a hospital, a children’s ward, and a therapy department were destroyed. This was reported by Pavlo Kyrylenko, the head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration on his Facebook page on March 9.
“Just now the Russian pilot pulled the trigger again, knowing exactly where the bomb would fall. Russians! You have not only crossed the limit of unacceptable relations between States and peoples. You have crossed the limit of humanity. Stop calling yourselves human beings!”, he said.
The Mariupol City Council said that Russian aviation dropped several bombs.
“The Russian occupation troops have now dropped several bombs on a children’s hospital. The destruction is colossal. The building of the medical institution, where children were treated recently, has been completely destroyed. Information about the injured children is being clarified,” the city council said in a statement.
As Ukrainian News reported, the evacuation of Ukrainians who found themselves in the cities most affected by Russian aggression, scheduled for March 9, has begun. Evacuation buses left Enerhodar in Zaporizhzhia Region.
The Russian military took a pause and did not engage in active combat that night.
Three people died during the bombardment of the children’s hospital in Mariupol
The Mariupol City Council has published an update on the victims of the bombing of a children’s hospital in Mariupol, Donetsk Region.
As of the morning of March 10, at least three people are known to have died. Among them was a young child.
The data on the injured remained unchanged – 17 people, including children, women, and doctors.
On March 9, Russian occupants carried out an air strike on a maternity hospital and a children’s hospital in Mariupol. Law enforcers qualified the event under Article 438 (violation of laws and customs of war) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
Context:
Mariupol is the largest port city on the coast of the Sea of Azov, now home to about 400,000 people.
Fighting for the city has been going on since the beginning of the Russian invasion. On March 6, in an interview with Dmytro Gordon, founder of the socio-political online publication GORDON, Vadym Boychenko, the City’s Mayor, said that Russian troops were unable to storm Mariupol and began dropping air bombs on it, firing Grads rockets and using howitzers on peaceful residential neighborhoods.
The exact number of Mariupol residents killed as a result of Russian aggression is not yet possible. However, Petro Andriushchenko, adviser to the City’s Mayor, claims that there are at least 1,300 of them.
Boychenko said that residents of besieged Mariupol were left without water, light, heat and communications because of the Russian occupiers (Tuesday evening, March 8).
Attempts to evacuate Mariupol were planned for March 5, 6, 7, and 8, all of which were disrupted by the occupants’ shelling of the humanitarian corridor.
On March 9, the “green corridor” was to reopen, but it was not possible to evacuate people or deliver humanitarian aid to the city, said Metinvest’s general director.
Russian occupants once again disrupted the evacuation of civilians from Ukrainian cities
Despite the agreement on “green corridors” and a cease-fire to evacuate civilians, the Russian military continues to shell and block evacuation buses.
The Russian government has officially confirmed the opening of “green corridors” for evacuating civilians from cities where active hostilities are taking place. However, once again they broke this promise and blocked the evacuation.
Dozens of buses with people in various cities were either stopped by the occupants or were unable to leave due to incessant shelling from the Russian side.
In the Kharkiv region, which is actively bombed by the Russians, they were unable to evacuate people.
Evacuation from Bucha: Occupiers block buses near Kyiv
Russian occupants are disrupting the evacuation of civilians from Bucha. The military blocked 50 buses in Stoianka near Kyiv, according to the press service of the Bucha City Council.
“The occupants are disrupting the evacuation. Now 50 buses are blocked by the Russian military in Stoianka: do not allow the convoy to pass,” said in a message of the Bucha City Council on Facebook.
At the moment, negotiations are underway to unblock the traffic.
“Recall that the “green corridor” was an agreement at the highest level”, – pointed out in the Mayor’s office of Bucha.
Recall that on March 9, from 9:00 to 21:00 silence regime was to work for humanitarian evacuation corridors on the routes:
Enerhodar – Zaporizhzhia,
Sumy – Poltava,
Izyum – Lozova,
Mariupol – Zaporizhzhia,
Volnovakha – Pokrovsk,
Vorzel, Borodianka, Bucha, Irpin, Hostomel – Kyiv.
As Flot 2017 previously reported, Russian units opened fire in the Kyiv region during the evacuation of civilians from Demydiv (Vyshhorod District). As a result of the shelling, one policeman was killed and several people were seriously wounded.
It was also reported that Dmytro Kuleba, Ukrainian Foreign Minister, called on the world community to act, because against the background of war, Russia was committing a crime against the civilians of Mariupol. More than 400 thousand people were held hostage, the evacuation and delivery of humanitarian aid were blocked, there was shelling of residential areas.
https://flot2017.com/evakuaciya-iz-buchi-okkupanty-zablokirovali-avtobusy-pod-kievom/
Bombing of Chernihiv: a ruthless, indiscriminate attack on people as they went about their daily business
An unguided bomb attack on Chernihiv may be regarded as a war crime.
This is the subject of a report on the website of Amnesty International, the international human rights organization.
This was an air strike at 12:15 p.m. on March 3. Forty-seven civilians were killed.
Reportedly, several bombs were dropped between Vyacheslav Chornovil Street and Kruhova Street.
FAB-500 bombs weighing 500 kg were used.
The overview map shows areas of damage confirmed by photographs and open-source video from the March 3, 2022 strikes in Chernihiv. Important civilian infrastructure is also shown in close proximity to areas of confirmed damage. Queues were seen at two grocery stores in close proximity in satellite images from February 28 (not shown).
“This was a ruthless, indiscriminate attack on people as they went about their daily business in their homes, on the streets, and in the stores,” said Joanna Mariner, Amnesty International’s director of crisis response.
On the morning of February 24, racist Moskovia launched a full-scale war against Ukraine. As a reminder, several military facilities in Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Dnipro were hit by missiles, and Russian troops crossed the border near Kharkiv.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces and all special and security services of the state were put on alert. The katsapi began intensive shelling of AFU units, and the Ukrainian army fought back the Russian troops. The National Security and Defense Council is working in emergency mode. Martial law is imposed. Ukraine officially filed a lawsuit against the Russian Federation in the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
Russian troops shelled the largest shopping mall in Kharkiv.
It opened less than a year ago
Kharkiv continues to come under fire from Russian occupation troops. On Wednesday evening, March 9, the occupiers struck at the Nikolsky shopping mall, causing a fire there.
This was reported by the Main Department of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region on its page on Facebook.
The fire in the shopping center started a few hours before midnight. According to the department, after shelling, the fire spread to an area of approximately 100 square meters.
Three departments of the city’s emergency services worked to eliminate the fire. By 03:00 on Thursday, March 10, the fire was extinguished.
Anton Herashchenko, advisor to the Minister of Internal Affairs, on his Telegram-channel showed pictures of what the shopping mall looked like after the shelling and the fire it caused.
Recall that Nikolsky Shopping Mall was opened on May 21, 2021. The budget
of the project amounted to 100 million euros.
As Ukrainian News reported, over the past day in Kharkiv and Kharkiv region there were recorded 74 shelling by the Russian occupation troops. At the same time, the regional center was subjected to 29 shellings.
Earlier, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that more than 280 houses, 26 schools and 23 kindergartens had been shelled in Kharkiv since the start of the Russian military aggression.
Russian occupants shelled Kharkiv 29 times overnight, gas pipeline damaged
Overnight on March 10, the Russian occupants shelled Kharkiv 29 times.
This was reported by Oleh Synyehubov, the head of the Kharkiv regional military administration.
In total, there were about 74 artillery and mortar attacks during the past 24 hours. The occupants fired multiple rocket launchers at Oleksiivka, Piatykhatka, Belhorod Highway, Kholodna Hora, Derhachi, Chuhuiv, Northern Saltivka (Pivnichna Saltivka) and Southern Saltivka (Pivdenna Saltivka), The Akademika Barabashova Metro Station and center of Kharkiv.
In particular, the Nikolsky shopping mall was damaged – it was attacked by a Smerch heavy multiple rocket launcher.
Residential buildings on Pushkinskaya Street were also damaged by the shelling.
Due to the night-time shelling of the Northern Saltivka (Pivnichna Saltivka) area, the gas pipeline was damaged – 30% of the city residents were left without gas, at the site of the shelling there was a gas fire, which continues to this day. Rescuers are working at the scene.
As a reminder, during the night, as a result of another shelling in the village of Slobozhanske, Izyum district, Kharkiv region, an enemy shell hit a private residential building.Four people died under the rubble.