Russia (bbabo.net), - A new statement was made by the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation regarding the ongoing shelling of Ukraine's unrecognized republics. The agency stated that the Investigative Committee "continues to identify officials involved in the use of prohibited means and methods of warfare against the civilian population of Donbass."

Here's what they say in SC. Today, during the day - February 21 - the military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out massive shelling using heavy weapons and mortars with high damaging properties, prohibited by the Minsk agreements, several settlements of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics.

The investigation obtained data that as a result of a hit and explosion of a shell in the area of ​​​​st. Markin Petrovsky district of Donetsk killed a civilian. And as a result of artillery shelling of the village of Prishib of the LPR, another civilian was seriously injured.

In addition, as a result of repeated hits by shells, the Donetsk filtration station in the Yasinovatsky district was de-energized, and therefore the water supply to several hundred residential buildings was stopped. Even in Donetsk, the buildings of two city schools were damaged.

- By shelling settlements, Ukrainian servicemen intended to kill or cause serious bodily harm to an unlimited number of civilians living in the south-east of Ukraine and not participating in the armed conflict. The Ukrainian security forces violated the Protocol on the Cessation of the Use of Weapons in the South-East of Ukraine and the Memorandum to it, the provisions of the Convention for the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War and Additional Protocol II to it, the UK emphasizes. And they say that they opened a criminal case under Article 356 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - "the use in an armed conflict of means and methods prohibited by an international treaty of the Russian Federation."

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