The U.S. Embassy in Ukraine did not provide any evidence of the attack in a statement posted on its official Twitter account.
The Embassy tweeted that “so many horrific attacks must cease” and added that the U.S. government was looking at all options to ensure accountability for any atrocity crime in Ukraine.
Each day the human suffering and loss of life caused by Russia’s war against Ukraine increases. Although the U.N. human rights office has recorded 600 deaths among civilians, the U.N. admits that the true toll will be much higher. Officials from Ukraine claim that thousands of civilians were killed in the siege of Mariupol, which is located in the southern part.
Although there was not much information about the attack on civilians in Chernihiv who were waiting for food, a video uploaded to social media showed the aftermath with several bodies on the ground.
Oleksandr Merezhko was one of the people who posted the video. He is deputy head of Verkhovna Rada in Ukraine and also chair of its Foreign Affairs Committee.
He tweeted that “Russians killed more than ten people standing in line to purchase bread”
This alleged attack occurred just a day after Ukraine’s general prosecutor stated that a Russian artillery fire had struck a university in Chernihiv and an open-air market in Chernihiv, killing 10. This was just one of several strikes that have struck the city in the past three weeks.
Wednesday’s announcement by the governor of the region was that electricity was cut in Chernihiv and nearby towns and villages. However, Governor Viacheslav Chaus stated to Reuters that the Ukrainian armed forces are waging “powerful battles against the Russian enemy every hour”
Mykola Vasylinko, a Kyiv resident, was interviewed by Reuters on Tuesday. He said he had fled Chernihiv to seek refuge in Kyiv. The situation there was “much worse”.
He told Reuters that “This Chernihiv is not.” “They [Russian forces] tried to erase it from the Earth’s surface. They target residential areas and bomb them specifically.
Chernihiv, one of many large cities located near Ukraine’s northeast frontier with Russia, has been under intense artillery fire ever since Vladimir Putin ordered an invasion and air war against Ukraine on February 24, 2018.