During the reporting period, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continued to carry out attacks that resulted in deaths of and injuries to civilians and the destruction of civilian objects. Widespread destruction of residential neighborhoods, the destruction of specially protected objects, numerous cases of repeated artillery strikes on the same civilian objects, use of indiscriminate weapons in urban environments, and the Russian Armed Forces’ unchanging conduct in spite of such significant destruction and death suggests that there are reasonable grounds to to conclude that they are intentionally targeting civilian objects. During the reporting period, the Russian military committed a number of serious war crimes. The crimes committed can be divided into the following categories: (1) attacks on civilians and civilian objects and (2) intentional obstruction of access to humanitarian relief, as provided for in the Geneva Conventions.
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