Attacks On Kharkiv And Real Charges Of War Crimes For Putin

Conditions of Kharkiv before the Russian invasion (Photo by Anna Hunko on Unsplash)

JAKARTA - Civilians became victims of a Russian missile attack on a residential building in Kharkiv, Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelensky immediately reacted and called the actions of Vladimir Putin's military forces a war crime.

From the fall of the victim, tucked three children who also died. Volodymyr Zelensky said there were eyewitness reports of civilians being deliberately targeted.

"Russian forces brutally shelled Kharkiv from jet artillery," Zelensky said in a late-night address to the Ukrainian people.

"It's a clear war crime. Peaceful city. Peaceful residential area. No military facilities. Dozens of eyewitness accounts prove that this was not a single fake shot, but a deliberate destruction of people. The Russians knew where they were shooting."

Under the Geneva Conventions, which Russia has ratified, the intentional targeting of civilians during armed conflict is considered a war crime.

The video of the alleged missile attack was uploaded by Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on his Twitter account.

"Barbaric Russian missile strikes on central Freedom Square and the residential district of Kharkiv," Kuleba said.

Barbaric Russian missile strikes on the central Freedom Square and residential districts of Kharkiv. Putin is unable to break Ukraine down. He commits more war crimes out of fury, murders innocent civilians. The world can and must do more. INCREASE PRESSURE, ISOLATE RUSSIA FULLY! pic.twitter.com/tN4VHF1A9n

— Dmytro Kuleba (@DmytroKuleba) March 1, 2022

"Putin cannot destroy Ukraine. He committed more war crimes out of anger, killing innocent civilians," he added, before calling on other countries to "isolate Russia completely".

Many media are still trying to verify the truth of this recording. Kuleba's post came after the head of the regional administration in Kharkiv, Oleg Synegubov, said Russian missile strikes had hit the city center, including residential areas and the city's administrative buildings.