The Ukrainian General Prosecutor’s Office announced that ten people who were queuing to buy bread were killed on Wednesday morning by Russian fire in Cherniguiv, in northern Ukraine. These shots were allegedly committed by Russian soldiers, the prosecution said in a statement.
Ten people queuing to buy bread were killed on Wednesday morning by Russian fire in Cherniguiv, northern Ukraine, the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office said. “At 10 a.m. (8 a.m. GMT), Russian soldiers fired on people queuing to buy bread near a grocery store in a residential area of Cherniguiv. According to an initial report, 10 civilians were killed “, said in a press release the prosecution.
An investigation opened for “premeditated murders” with “firearms”
An investigation has been opened for “premeditated murders” committed using “firearms”, added this source, without further details. Cherniguiv, one of the strategic localities north of kyiv, close to the border with Belarus, a country allied with Russia, was heavily shelled by the Russian air force after the start, on February 24, of the offensive against the Ukraine.
Three adults were killed and three children injured on March 8 in the explosion of an antipersonnel mine in the region of this city located 150 km north of the Ukrainian capital, said Liudmyla Denissova, in charge of human rights at the Parliament Ukrainian. It was the first time since the start of the Russian invasion that a Ukrainian official had officially mentioned people killed by such mines.