Date of the event
06.03.2022
Venue
the city of Irpin
During the evacuation from the city of Irpin to the city of Kyiv, 8 civilians were killed in the Russian shelling.
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: (i) Intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population as such or against individual civilians not taking direct part in hostilities;
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