- Drone footage shows Russian forces attacking civilian infrastructure in Borodyanka, Ukraine.
- The city is located about 55 miles northwest of the capital Kyiv.
- A resident told Reuters that a Russian tank fired on a supermarket there.
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Footage of drones from a city north of Kyiv shows that Russian forces have attacked civilian infrastructure in Ukraine.
Footage from the Reuters news agency shows widespread demolition of apartment buildings in Borodyanka, 55 miles from the Ukrainian capital. The city has come under repeated shelling by the Russian military.
A city resident described a possible war crime, claiming that a Russian armored personnel carrier and tank attacked civilians directly.
“They started firing from their APC at the park in front of the post office,” the man told Reuters, a testimony that could not be confirmed independently. “Then these bastards set fire to the tank and started firing at the supermarket, which was already on fire. It lit up again. An old man ran outside like crazy, with big round eyes and said, “Give me a Molotov cocktail! lit!'”
Locals say they have repulsed the Russian offensive in the city.
In a speech Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to have offered a pretext for attacking civilian infrastructure, claiming that Ukrainian forces are using civilians as a “human shield”.
According to Amnesty International, Russia is “attacking civilians in Ukraine” with widespread reports of artillery fire and cruise missiles hitting non-military targets, including the Holocaust memorial in the capital.
At least 22 people were killed in a strike in Chernihiv, another city north of Kyiv, the Financial Times reported. Locals reported the indiscriminate use of cluster bombs, another potential war crime.
More than 2,000 civilians have been killed since the war broke out on February 24, according to Ukrainian authorities.
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