Shots in escape corridor
Kyiv: Seven civilians killed in evacuation
03/12/2022, 9:35 p.m
Near Kyiv, another escape corridor agreed between the warring parties was shelled. According to Ukrainian sources, seven civilians died in the attack by Russian troops, including a child.
According to Ukrainian sources, seven people were killed in a Russian attack on women and children in an escape corridor near Kyiv. A child was among the victims of the “brutal act,” the Ukrainian military intelligence service said on Facebook and Twitter. The attack on the escape corridor from the village of Peremoga, which had been agreed between the warring parties, happened on Friday. The village is located about 60 kilometers from the center of the Ukrainian capital.
Women and children should have been taken out of the village in the Kyiv region in a convoy, the Ukrainian secret service said. But he was shot at and the people had to return to Peremoga. It is not known how many people were injured in the shelling. “The protection of civilians in armed conflicts is governed by international humanitarian law,” the statement said. Deliberate attacks are therefore to be equated with war crimes.
Since the start of the Russian war of aggression on February 24, Russia and Ukraine have agreed several times on local ceasefires and evacuation corridors to allow civilians to leave the contested areas. This often failed, however, and both sides accused each other of violating the ceasefire. A few days ago, an attack on an escape corridor in the Kiev suburb of Irpin caused horror around the world. A woman with her two children and an acquaintance of the family were hit and killed by a mortar shell.
“Unfortunately, the humanitarian situation in Ukraine continues to deteriorate rapidly and has reached catastrophic proportions in some cities,” the Russian Defense Ministry said. The Interfax agency quoted the ministry as saying that Ukraine had again refused to open humanitarian corridors to Russia.