They call her “dear death.” Thus, some neighbors relate to the route that crosses the city of Jerson in the near city of Antonivar, in the south of Ukraine. The woman says that on the way to work, she usually sees the drones throw explosives. “We walk and risk, it’s terrible!” He says. The person reports that unmanned devices “indicate where there is movement.” Many remain at home as much as possible, they go on cloud days or hide under the foliage of trees so as not to be noticed. Despite this, “drones continue to attack people, no matter what happens,” says another woman.
Certificates collected by an independent expert commission sent to the UN to the captured country are a reflection of how the population of the city of Jerson and other places located along the right bank of the Dnipros River, “in the climate of constant fear” from the recurring attacks of Russia. In his last report launched on Wednesday, an independent international commission on Ukraine, called SO, concludes that Moscow forces committed crimes against humanity (murders) and war crimes (attack on civilians) in this part of the country according to the “scheme of months” of attacks with unmanned aircraft. A group of experts also claims that these acts were committed “with the main goal of visiting terror among the civilian population, violating international humanitarian law.”
For his investigation, a commission formed by three experts – Eric Mooz, President of the same, Pablo de Graiff and Vrind Grover, talked with more than 90 residents of the injured regions in the Jerson region, and, among other things, geolocalized more than 120 videos published publicly released. In total, they documented the attacks of drones on civilians in the city and in another 16 places that extend by more than 100 kilometers in the Riverside areas under the control of the Ukrainian government – according to the instructions, referring to official sources, almost 150 civilians died, and hundreds of more were injured.
Jergson was the first important city captured by Russian troops in the early stages of a large invasion in 2022 and was discovered by Kyiv forces after the counter -November of the same year along with other cities on the right bank of the river. The Armed Forces and the Civil Administration of the occupation of Russia retired to the opposite shore.
According to the document in which they express their conclusions, since July 2024, operators of Russian military drones based on the riverbank, which they occupy, systematically attacked civilians, in various circumstances, mainly on the street, on foot or use the ambulance, often preventing them from getting to the victims and, despite the fact that they are protected that they are protected that they are protected that they are protected that they are protected international legislation.
Russian criminals used civil drones, “widely accessible in the market,” turned into weapons to launch explosives for suicidal purposes and drones that explode under the influence, according to the text. The authors of the report indicate that several Russian Telegram channels, some of which with thousands of followers are distributed hundreds of videos about attacks from the original sources of drones, and the published images show that the military “can clearly see the victims and not leave doubts that they intend to attack civilians.”
“Individual unmanned attacks are war crimes for the intentional direction of civilians. The conclusion that the Russian army fulfilled the “organizational policy” and committed the murder as a crime against humanity.
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Researchers also believe that the public distribution of videos of “threatening” attacks and texts announcing new attacks in the so -called “red zone” was aggravated by fear of the population. “Some publications relate to the attacks of drones, such as“ hunting ”, which is also how the inhabitants experience attacks,” they write, collecting an example of a video published in August last year, in which they persecuted a civilian car and wounded a passenger with the text: “Hunting at full swing.”
“The soldiers of the Russian Federation behave as if it were Safari,” the hospital’s doctor in the city of Jersin, who approved the hospital in the city of Dersoon, say. “They simply pursue and hunt civilians who go to work or go to their dogs. They produce explosives from drones, as if it were a video game. ”
In this sense, the commission indicates that Russia also violates humanitarian law by committing actions or threats of violence with the main goal of introducing fear among the civilian population. In his opinion, the behavior of criminals may be a crime against humanity as a result of compulsory transfer of the population.
“The generalized and systematic nature of attacks, terror filled with the population and the subsequent atmosphere of coercion, forced thousands of people to escape,” they say. “In addition to the attack on civilians, drones repeatedly attacked civil assets and infrastructure, all means of transportation and emergency and rescue services. Damage and destruction of houses, the absence or restriction of services, the main infrastructure and transport left the injured areas, and many residents without another choice than to the appearance of the Russian authorities, so that the population was forced to leave the country. ”
Since the restoration of Derson by Ukraine, both armies conducted military operations from the opposite banks of the river. The UN Expert Commission guarantees that she studied the complaints of the Russian authorities about the attacks of drones with the armed forces of Kiva against civilian targets in the Jerson region. Nevertheless, he could not confirm them from the “lack of cooperation” of the Russian authorities with a group created by the Council of Human Rights of the United Nations to investigate violations and abuse of rights committed in the context of the invasion located Vladimir Putin.
During the war in Ukraine, both sides widely used drones of various types. On the night of this Tuesday, after a wave of air attacks by Putin’s army, 296 Ukrainian drones in several regions, according to the country’s Ministry of Defense, demolished the anti -air defense of Russia. Dozens of them were intercepted in the vicinity of Moscow, where attacks forced the authorities to cancel flights.