Vinnytsia: Kalibrs on a city centre at eleven in the morning
Central Vinnytsia · 14 July 2022
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Kalibr cruise missiles launched from the Black Sea hit the centre of Vinnytsia — 400 km from the front — at about 10:45 on a Thursday: the Officers' House concert hall, a clinic, an office block and a car park. 28–29 civilians died, three of them children, among them four-year-old Liza Dmytriieva, just out of a speech-therapy session. Russia said it had struck a meeting of the Air Force command with foreign arms suppliers and 'the participants were eliminated'.
Missile strike on a civilian city centre, 29 civilians killed — established on the record (UN SG; Ukrainian investigation; Russian admission of the strike) Sea-launched cruise missiles on cities far from the front, with an invented military target — pattern War crime combined with premeditated murder — position (Arts. 28(2), 438(2) CCU; Osipov charged)
Russia said. Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation · daily briefing, Moscow, 15 Jul 2022 (relayed by RIA Novosti; translation via Novaya Gazeta Europe / Ukrainian News): “Yesterday, high-precision Kalibr missiles attacked the garrison house of officers in Vinnytsia; at that moment a meeting of the command of the Ukrainian Air Force with representatives of foreign arms suppliers was held … As a result of the strike, the participants in the meeting were eliminated.” — No such meeting, no such participants. The dead are 29 civilians including three children; none was an Air Force officer or a foreign national, and Russia has never named one. The missiles also hit a clinic, an office block and a car park, which the statement omits.
Evidence held: UN Secretary-General, 14 Jul 2022; EU High Representative and Commissioner for Crisis Management, 14 Jul 2022; General Staff (Deputy Chief of Main Operational Directorate O. Hromov) and Air Force, 14 Jul 2022; SBU, 12 Jul 2023.
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