Ten people who were queuing for bread died on Wednesday morning March 16 as a result of shelling by Russian troops in Chernihiv in northern Ukraine, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine said.
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“The Russian military fired on people queuing for bread outside a grocery store in a residential area of Chernihiv. According to preliminary data, 10 civilians were killed,” the prosecutor’s office said in a statement. An investigation into “intentional killings” committed with “firearms” has been launched, the source added, without elaborating. Chernihiv, one of the strategic points north of Kyiv, close to the border with Belarus, a Russian ally, came under massive Russian air fire after the February 24 offensive into Ukraine began. Three adults were killed and three children were injured March 8 when an anti-personnel mine exploded near the city, 150 kilometers north of the Ukrainian capital, said Lyudmila Denisova, human rights officer at Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada. For the first time since the beginning of the Russian invasion, a Ukrainian official officially mentioned the people who died from such mines.
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