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;….
Mick Hartley 
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