Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman Ludmila Denisova has accused Russian forces of shooting dozens of elderly people in Luhansk region. In a post on Telegram, she said:
Today it became known about another terrible crime against humanity committed by the racist occupation forces – the shooting of 56 elderly people in Luhansk region.
In the town of Kreminna on March 11, the Russian occupiers cynically and purposefully fired from a tank at a home for the elderly.
56 residents who lived to their old age in the house died on the spot. The survivors, 15 people, were abducted by the occupiers and taken to the occupied territory in Svatove to the regional geriatric boarding school.
It is still impossible to get to the site of the tragedy to bury the dead old people.
This is another act of horrific genocide – the extermination of the civilian population of Ukraine. For every such crime, for every innocent life taken, the leadership of the aggressor state must be held accountable in all the severity of international criminal law.
I call on the International Criminal Court to take this fact into account in the investigation of war crimes and crimes against humanity by the Russian political and military leadership.
I ask UN member states to speed up the establishment of the Special Military Tribunal. Rashist criminals must bear full responsibility for the atrocities in Ukraine!
Deputy commander of the Russian Black Fleet, formerly deputy commander of Russian forces in Syria, about to be promoted to rear-admiral, killed in action in Mariupol, Russia confirms. Born and raised in Kyiv! https://t.co/4p014TfqoD
— Yaroslav Trofimov (@yarotrof) March 20, 2022