The systematic destruction of the city of Izyum is an obvious fact of genocide and a cynical violation of the requirements of the Geneva Convention for the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War of August 12, 1949. This point of view was expressed on her Facebook page by Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova.

She noted that constant air and artillery shelling of Izyum continues for the second day.. “The local population has no way out of the bomb shelters. There is no information on the number of victims.

The center of the town, whose population before the war was more than 46 thousand, is completely destroyed. Not a single building left. Schools, hospitals were damaged throughout the city. There is no light, gas and heat,"

“I ask NATO member countries to close the sky over Ukraine! "