According to the Ukrainian Emergency Service, the strike hit a parking lot near a ten-story commercial building in the center of the city, which houses offices and small shops repairing clothes or shoes .
Images released by Ukrainian rescue workers show the charred carcasses of numerous cars, some overturned on the roof next to the building, burned and disemboweled by the explosion.
Many cars were completely burned in the fire that followed the Russian strike.
Photo: The Canadian Press/AP/Ukrainian Rescue Services
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The Attorney General’s office maintains that residential buildings and administrative buildings also suffered significant damage in this attack, carried out according to him by Kalibr missiles from a Russian submarine in the Black Sea.
Vinnytsia, a city of approximately 370,000 inhabitants, is an important railway hub in Western Ukraine. It is about 270 kilometers southwest of the capital, kyiv, and very far from the front lines in the south and east of the country.
« Every day Russia kills civilians, kills Ukrainian children, fires missiles at civilian targets where there is nothing military. What is this if not an overt act of terrorism? »
The Russian Defense Ministry did not comment on the information from Vinnytsia.
Meeting on alleged war crimes in Ukraine
The strike on Vinnytsia came hours before political, diplomatic and judicial officials from around the world gathered in The Hague, Netherlands, for a conference on accountability for crimes committed in Ukraine since the start of the war. , February 24.
Called to address the participants by videoconference, President Zelensky called for the setting up of a special court
to investigate the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
« Current judicial institutions cannot bring all the culprits to justice. Accordingly, a special tribunal is needed to try the crimes of Russian aggression against Ukraine. »
The head of Ukrainian diplomacy, Dmytro Kuleba, specifically called for the creation of a special tribunal capable of judging the crime of aggression – the attack of one State against another, planned by a political or military leader – against Ukraine.
All we want is for the crime of aggression not to go unpunished
he said by videoconference.
As we speak children, women and men live in terror
said the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, raising the curtain of this conference organized by his organization, the European Commission and the Netherlands. We have to work together
he hammered.
The CPI opened in early March, a few days after the Russian invasion, an investigation into the situation in the country and dispatched dozens of investigators there to collect evidence of possible war crimes.
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The CPIwhich has been prosecuting the perpetrators of the worst atrocities in the world for twenty years, cannot prosecute the crime of aggression if this country has not ratified the Rome Statute, which is the case of Russia and Ukraine .
The European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders for his part recalled that 20,000 investigations have been opened for war crimes in Ukraine. Fourteen European states are investigating these crimes and a European joint investigation team has been set up, he underlined.
Russia systematically denies all the abuses of which its troops are accused: bombardments of civilians, summary executions, rapes. And she in turn accuses Ukraine of war crimes.
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