Evacuation amid shelling: Russian forces open fire on Kreminna residents, killing four

In Luhansk region, as residents tried to leave Kreminna settlement, Russian forces opened fire on cars carrying civilians, killing four.

Liudmyla Denisova, the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, said this in a Telegram post, Ukrinform reports.

“This morning, residents of Kreminna in Luhansk region tried to evacuate in their own cars. Russian militants opened fire on residents. Four people died. One seriously injured person remains at the scene of the shooting, because medics cannot reach the person due to continuous bombing," Denisova said.

According to her, for the second day in a row, Russian troops have made it impossible to open humanitarian corridors from the areas of hostilities and temporarily occupied territories, as routes under constant fire.

Denisova reiterated that such actions by the Russian army are a war crime under Articles 7 and 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and a gross violation of the 1949 Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.

"I call on the UN commission to investigate violations committed during Russia’s military attack on Ukraine to take into account these facts of crimes and human rights violations in Ukraine," she said.

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