The Russian rocket missile hit the foreign vessel in the Nikolaev port

While in the port, a transport ship registered under the flag of Bangladesh were hit but the Russian rocket. Fortunately, no one was hurt.

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;

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Sources

https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3418371-russian-missile-hits-foreign-vessel-in-mykolaiv-port.html

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