Ukrainian prosecutors said on Wednesday afternoon that Russian fire had killed ten people waiting outside a grocery store in Chernihiv in the country’s north.
Ten people queuing for bread were killed Wednesday morning in a shelling by Russian troops in Chernihiv in northern Ukraine, Ukrainian prosecutors said.
“Russian servicemen fired at people who were queuing for bread near a grocery store in a residential area of Chernihiv. According to preliminary data, ten 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.
Strategic city already under attack
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.