In Trostyanets, Sumy region, Russian invaders placed their equipment in residential areas and, fearing airstrikes and artillery from Ukraine, additionally force civilians to sit on the streets near the equipment at night as a human shield, said Lyudmila Denisova, Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for Human Rights.

She said that in the city the invaders kill civilians and destroy civilian infrastructure, massively rob. So, on one of the streets, Russian invaders threw a grenade at people - two men died as a result of the explosion..

“The invaders killed the head of the street committee, Anna Samoilova, and for several days snipers fired at the street, preventing residents from taking the body for burial.. The other day, a guy was shot right on the street, who was returning home in the evening. They shot the head of the agricultural enterprise, who was driving to work in the morning,"

Rashist militants fire on the local hospital, which is already almost destroyed, and on Sunday they fired heavy artillery at residential buildings and killed three pensioners living there. The invaders also resort to mass looting: all shops, ATMs, pharmacies in the city are devastated, as are many apartments of local residents.

“Torture by Russian militants of civilians is nothing but genocide of the Ukrainian people in accordance with the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

I appeal to the International Committee of the Red Cross to take all possible measures to open safe humanitarian corridors on the territory of Ukraine for the evacuation of the civilian population of areas of active hostilities and occupation,” Denisova said..

Recall that the city of Trostyanets constantly remains occupied inside and completely surrounded from all sides from the outside.. Enemy checkpoints are located along the perimeter of the city, passing through which is a great risk to life..