A Russian drone preliminarily hit a multi-storey residential building in Kropyvnytskyi, injuring one person, according to local officials in central Ukraine.
Andriy Raykovych, head of the Kirovohrad Regional Military Administration, reported the incident on Telegram and stated that the injured resident was hospitalized for treatment.
Local Telegram channels in the area had previously reported hearing explosion sounds and described a direct strike on a residential structure.
Kropyvnytskyi is the administrative center of Kirovohrad Oblast in central Ukraine. Located along the Inhul River, the city has faced recurring aerial alerts during the ongoing conflict.
Widespread attacks on civilian infrastructure
Russian military forces regularly attack Ukrainian cities and civilian infrastructure across all regions using strike unmanned aerial vehicles, missiles, guided aerial bombs, and multiple launch rocket systems.
Ukrainian authorities and international organizations qualify these attacks as war crimes committed by the Russian Federation, emphasizing that the strikes are deliberate in nature.
Legal experts, genocide researchers, and human rights defenders state that systematic strikes on life-support systems and healthcare facilities aim to deprive populations of electricity, heat, water, communications, and medical care, which constitute signs of genocidal actions.
Rights advocates highlight several categories of actions undertaken during the full-scale war that fall under the legal definition of genocide, including public statements by Russian officials denying the existence of Ukrainians as a distinct ethnic group.
International law and Russian denials
The allegations also cover the persecution of pro-Ukrainian individuals in occupied regions, the targeted killing of cultural figures and teachers, the forced deportation of unattached Ukrainian children to Russia, the removal of Ukrainian books from libraries, and the looting of historical museum artifacts.
The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948. Currently ratified by 149 state parties, the international treaty obligates member nations to prevent and punish acts of genocide in both wartime and peacetime.
Under the treaty, genocide is defined as acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. Specific criteria include killing members of a group, inflicting serious bodily harm, imposing conditions calculated to cause physical destruction, and forcibly transferring children.
The leadership of the Russian Federation denies that its military targets civilian infrastructure or kills civilians during the full-scale invasion, claiming that strikes do not target residential areas, schools, hospitals, or energy networks.
