the destruction Chernigov This is total.The city, 150 kilometers north of Kyiv, is receiving Russia began its invasion of Ukraine on February 24. Since then, Chernihiv has been at the center of several attacks on civilians, one of which deadliest so far More than fifty people died.
this is the past March 3 When the Russian Air Force launched several air raids on residential areas Chernihiv left dozens of buildings in ruins and hundreds of homeless people.The attack also destroyed churches and a hospital.
According to the Chernihiv regional government, Russia has at least started eight shells Oppose a residential complex that causes total chaos in a city of 290,000 residents Close to the border of Russia and Belarus. To this day, half of its population has left the city since the war began.Evacuation is now almost impossible because Russian troops they destroyed a bridge Connect Chernihiv with the capital Kyiv.
The initial death toll in this attack was 47 people, including 38 men and 9 women, according to authorities and organisations such as Amnesty International. However, as time passed and firefighters worked to clear the rubble, The death toll exceeds fifty In addition, some of the injured were killed due to their serious injuries.
This is The first major attack on Chernihiv, One of the most heavily bombed Ukrainian cities by Russia, nearly 70% of the population speaks Russian. From then onwards, 75% of buildings in the city were destroyed Since the bombing of the area was continuous, few were able to rebuild.
Russia’s attack on Chernihiv focuses on total destruction of the city Attacks are generalized rather than precise With regard to specific targets, such as the 3 March when residential areas were bombed and attacked again a few days later.
Chernihiv is located in There is no running water, the electricity supply is very unstable, Continuous power outages throughout the day. The supply of food and medical supplies has been disrupted several times.
The death toll in the subsequent Russian attack on the city brought the total to more than 200as the mayor of Chernihiv confirmed, Vladislav Atroshenkohe describes the state of the city as “catastrophic”.
civilian casualties
Since the invasion of Ukraine began on February 24, the United Nations has confirmed At least 1,151 people died and 1,824 injured among civilians.However, from the UN itself, they recognized These numbers are far from the real numbers, Any effort to compare reality is complicated by the situation in the country and by misinformation or lack of transparency in the data provided by Ukraine and Russia.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (Acnudh) has listed the deceased as 229 men, 171 women, 34 boys and 15 girls, and 648 adults and 54 minors of unknown gender. The released document also details the circumstances of the injured, 203 men, 152 women, 34 girls and 26 boys.
OHCHR stipulates that in territories controlled by the Ukrainian authorities – in particular the capital and areas of Kyiv, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, etc., Kharkiv, Kherson, Nikolayev, OdessaSumy, Zaporozhye, Dnipropetrovsk and Zhitomir – 774 civilians were killed and 896 wounded.
in separatist and Russian-speaking areas Donetsk and lugansk 377 killed and 928 wounded, of which 60 were killed and 228 wounded, corresponding to territories controlled by the People’s Republic, and 317 killed and 700 wounded, corresponding to areas controlled by Kyiv.
It also showed that the majority of recorded victims “due to the use of Explosive weapons with a wide range of impact, Including heavy artillery shelling and multiple rocket launch systems, air strikes and missile strikes.”