Greetings to everyone on the InformationWar platform! Russia military airstrikes hits another civilian populace on Saturday during an evacuation from the Kharkiv region of Ukraine. Good evening!
It's been months of airstrikes shelling on the Ukrainian landscape and one of the worrisome aspects of these shellings is that it's targeted towards civilian populated regions and in turn killing as well as affecting the livelihoods of the people.
Most of the civilian deaths during this war in Ukraine has not been at the frontline regions but have been observed in cities that have high civilian populace in them.
Just some hours of Russia's retreat in Lyman, a Russian shelling have killed 24 people in an evacuation convoy on Saturday. According to reports, the convoy of seven cars was attacked by the Russian troops and most of the victims were burnt alongside their families, including children and women.
“In the Kupyansk district, a shot-at convoy of cars containing civilians was found. According to preliminary data, 20 people died in the cars,” Kharkiv Governor Oleg Synegubov said on the Telegram messenger site.
Synegubov put the preliminary death toll at 24 including a pregnant woman and 13 children.
“Russians fired on the civilians at close range. [They] attacked civilians who tried to escape the shelling. This is cruelty that has no justification,” Synegubov said.Source
Killing unarmed citizens and attacking the vulnerable (elderly, women and children) in Ukraine simply means that the Russian military are deliberate in committing war crimes and aren't afraid of it's consequences that'll be taken by the international community in the future.
This attitude to me isn't a good one because every human lives taken during this war matters a lot, most especially that of the innocent Ukraine citizens that are killed and abused on a daily basis by the Russian military.
I believe that Russia's plan of targeting the civilian populace is to weaken the Ukrainian government and military and give them quick access to conquer Ukraine, but instead the Ukrainian military have
forced the Russian military to retreat through her current offensive attacks at the Russian military with recent evidence at the Lyman region.
“Russia is expending strategically valuable military assets in attempts to achieve tactical advantage and in the process is killing civilians it now claims are its own citizens,” it said.Source
The above statement gives a summary of Russia's state of insanity. How can a nation attack a region and kill the citizens that's now theirs. Killing any civilian from the four annexed cities to me is a state of lunacy and a time for the citizens of those areas to fight against Russia's annexation.
It's high time the international community stand up and give justice to the dead civilians and those that are abused on a daily basis by opening a trial at the International Court of Justice in the Hague to prosecute all who have committed one war crime or crimes against humanity.