In Ukraine civilians are dying.
There are no complete or definitive figures, but it is a fact: the UN counts at least 351 non-military deaths, most of them in bombings, and warns that this figure is an underestimate.
Hundreds of videos and photos shared on social media show attacks on civilian infrastructure.
EL PAÍS has analyzed some thirty events, focusing on those collected by verification groups such as the Center for Information Resilience and Bellingcat.
We show them at the end of the text.
One example is the bombing
of apartment blocks in Borodyanka
, west of Kiev.
Restaurant
Park
childish
Kindergarten
Pinocchio
Edifice
residential
Borodyanka
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50 meters
Image: Bingmaps
Kyiv
Borodyanka
Restaurant
Edifice
residential
Kindergarten
Pinocchio
Park
childish
Borodyanka
E-373
50 meters
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Borodyanka
Image: Bingmaps
Video: Telegram, via @michaeldweiss
A video shot in the adjoining park shows dilapidated buildings and a slide amid debris and fallen trees.
50 meters away is the Pinocho nursery school, which has its playground there.
Another shot from a different angle shows one of the buildings on fire.
The Donde Sasha restaurant, which occupied the ground floor of the building, had an arch at the entrance that is now demolished and a garden that has disappeared.
The roundabout is littered with debris.
On March 1 in Borodyanka there were 21 civilian deaths and more than a hundred wounded, according to the regional administration.
On February 25, an artillery attack took place on
a kindergarten in Okhtyrka
, a city of 50,000 people about 100 kilometers west of Kharkiv.
A seven-year-old girl and five other people died, according to the NGO Save the Children.
Kyiv
Okhtyrka
School
childish
Okhtyrka
50 meters
Image: Googlemaps
Kyiv
Okhtyrka
School
childish
Okhtyrka
50 meters
Image: Googlemaps
Video: @michaelh992 and Bellingcat
A video verified by the Bellingcat research group shows the moment after the attack.
Half a dozen impacts can be seen on the roof of the school and in the courtyard at the entrance.
Two bodies are also seen lying on the ground.
In the surroundings of the school there are other study centers and many blocks of flats.
On March 1, a Russian missile hit the
Kharkov regional administration building
, which presides over Freedom Square and is surrounded by offices, cafes and restaurants.
The moment of the attack was captured on video released by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.
Museum
Management
regional
Kharkiv
square of the
Liberty
50 meters
Image:
google maps
Kyiv
Kharkiv
Museum
Management
regional
Kharkiv
square of the
Liberty
50 meters
Kyiv
Kharkiv
Image: Googlemaps
Video: maria_avdv, Photo: AFP
State emergency services say there were at least seven dead in the explosion, although local authorities gave different death tolls throughout the day.
The building is in the center of Kharkiv, the country's second most populous city, which has suffered heavy bombardment this week.
About 500 meters to the south, another video captured the collapse of the Faculty of Economics at Karmazin University.
The building is in a university block, surrounded by bars and cafes.
The adjoining building is a police center, also damaged.
The Russians have also bombed
residential areas on the outskirts of Kharkiv
.
On February 28, a block of flats in the suburb of Obriy came under fire from an airstrike.
Videos and photos show explosions at the foot of the building, which is close to a clinic, a school, a pharmacy and a market.
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residential
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polyclinic
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Image:
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Kharkiv
Hospital
polyclinic
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Supermarket
Image:
google maps
Kyiv
Kharkiv
Video: Telegram and 2022Kharkiv |
Photo: TRYXA
There has been shelling and heavy fighting around Kiev since the first days of the invasion.
Especially in the northwest, near the Gostomel airport, which was soon rendered useless by bombs.
Videos taken between February 28 and March 1 show the consequences of the attack in
a residential neighborhood of Irpin
, a town that touches with Kiev.
In the images you see blocks of houses reduced to rubble.
In the area there is a private nursery, a park and grocery stores.
According to local authorities quoted by the BBC, there were several civilian casualties.
Medical Center
and inquiries
Edifice
residential
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Irpin
25 meters
Kindergarten
Image:
google maps
Irpin
Kyiv
Medical Center
and inquiries
Edifice
residential
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Irpin
25 meters
Kindergarten
Image:
google maps
Irpin
Kyiv
Video: NEXTA |
Photo: EFE and Google Maps
We have highlighted five bombings of urban areas, but the attacks against civilians number in the dozens.
The map below shows them in Kiev, Bucha, Kharkov, Mariupol, Mykolay, Kherson or Cernihiv.
Unfortunately, this is not a complete or definitive list.
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Zhytomyr
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Kharkiv
Lugansk
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Mariupol
Mykolayiv
Kherson
Melitopol
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Kyiv
Kharkiv
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Mariupol
Mykolayiv
Kherson
Melitopol
Chernigov
Sumy
Zhytomyr
Kyiv
Kharkiv
Lviv
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Lugansk
Dnipro
Donetsk
Zaporizhia
Mariupol
Melitopol
Mykolayiv
Kherson
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Chernigov
Sumy
Zhytomyr
Kyiv
Lviv
Kharkiv
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Lugansk
Dnipro
Donetsk
Zaporizhia
dnieper river
Mariupol
Melitopol
Mykolayiv
Kherson
CRIMEA
The use of cluster bombs, a weapon prohibited by international conventions, although neither Russia nor Ukraine signed them, has been documented in some of these attacks.
These bombs explode in dispersion over a large area, indiscriminately, which makes them a direct threat against the population.
Amnesty International has certified its use against civilians in Kharkov on February 28 and Humans Rights Watch denounces its use in the bombing of a hospital in Vuhledar, in Donbas.
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