A genocide against Ukrainians is unfolding right now.

It already has a name: "Kholodomor" (exhaustion through cold)

This crime is being deliberately committed by russia.

In legal terms, it has a clear definition - genocide.

Under Article II of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, one of the defining acts of genocide is:

"Deliberately inflicting on a group of people conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part."

Many Ukrainian cities - Kyiv foremost among them - have been without electricity, heating, and water for the second week in a row, amid severe frosts.

What does this mean?

It means people are being condemned to death by russia.

This is what is happening:

▪️ Elderly people cannot leave their apartments to buy food or water because elevators do not work - or because they are physically unable to walk down the stairs;

▪️ No communication: mobile phones are dead, there is no way to call for help or an ambulance;

▪️ Sick people cannot use life-sustaining medical equipment because there is no electricity at home;

▪️ Mothers of small kids carry their children and strollers up staircases in high-rise buildings - along with water and food;

▪️ No hot meals and no possibility to cook food at home;

▪️ Sewer system failures, creating critical and dangerous conditions;

▪️ Illness caused by extreme cold and the inability to stay warm;

▪️ Children cannot attend schools because there is no heating. Distance learning is also impossible without electricity;

▪️ Kindergartens are closed, mothers cannot work, earn money to feed their children;

▪️ Stray animals are freezing to death on the streets;

▪️ Even pets are dying from the cold - parrots, aquarium fish, animals kept in terrariums;

▪️ Animals in zoos are freezing;

▪️ Collections of rare plants in Kyiv’s botanical gardens have frozen and died;

▪️ Small businesses are earning nothing, forced to spend money on generators and fuel - causing direct losses to the economy;

▪️ Severe harm to the environment and public health due to the constant operation of massive numbers of generators;

▪️ Public transport functions far worse due to power outages; electric transport does not operate at all, leaving people unable to reach work, doctors, or essential services;

▪️ Burst pipes and freezing temperatures are destroying homes, making them uninhabitable;

▪️ Hospitals are forced to cancel planned surgeries, operating in emergency mode and at full capacity;

▪️ Rates of depression, anxiety disorders, and burnout are sharply increasing.

Russia wants to make large Ukrainian cities uninhabitable.

This is a humanitarian catastrophe deliberately caused by Russia.

Source: Anton Gerashchenko

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