Shelling of residential buildings in Kharkiv

Date of the event

24.02.2022

Venue

the city of Kharkiv

A missile flew into one of the apartments of the multi-family building. Fortunately, there were no casualties.

Legal qualification

in accordance with Art. 8 sec. 2(b)(i) of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, adopted on 17 July 1998 at Rome; With regard to war crimes, the above incident is a war crime that can be classified as other serious violations of the laws and customs of international law applicable to armed conflicts of an international character, namely: (ii) Intentionally directing attacks against civilian objects, that is, objects which are not military objectives