| 3 March 2022 Chernihiv bombing | |
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| Part of theSiege of Chernihiv | |
 Unexploded Russian bomb being removed from a building in Chernihiv | |
 Interactive map of 3 March 2022 Chernihiv bombing | |
| Location | Chernihiv,Ukraine |
| Date | 3 March 2022 12:15 PM |
Attack type | Airstrike |
| Deaths | 47[1] |
| Injured | 18[2] |
| Perpetrators |  Russian Armed Forces |
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On 3 March 2022, 47 people were killed in a series of airstrikes inChernihiv by Russian forces[3] during thesiege of the city, during theRussian invasion of Ukraine.Amnesty International andHuman Rights Watch described the strikes as awar crime.[1][4]
On 3 March 2022, just after 12:00 (UTC+2), sixunguided aerial bombs were filmed falling in a residential area inChernihiv,[5] in a triangularpublic square formed byViacheslava Chornovila and Kruhova streets (51°30′00″N31°16′45″E / 51.5001°N 31.2791°E /51.5001; 31.2791). Analysis byAmnesty International found that (at least) eight bombs fell.[1] A witness living in Ivana Bohuna Street, Alina, heard a loud buzzing sound before the bombs exploded.[1]
The film of the attack was recorded on adashboard camera (dashcam). The film shows the six bombs falling and an explosion. Other online media was published showing bodies of the victims, survivors being carried away on stretchers, firemen trying to put out fires in the main apartment complex that had been hit, and cars and trees on fire. Regional Governor Viacheslav Chaus told reporters that two schools were hit.[5]
Ukrainian-born United States CongresswomanVictoria Spartz (IN-R) told reporters that her grandmother lived in a building nearby and the windows had all been destroyed.[6]
The same day, two schools (№18 and №21) and 8 private houses were destroyed, and 7 more houses heavily damaged, in another place in Chernihiv, in the vicinity of Biloruskyi Lane.[7]
Yulia Matvienko, also an Ivana Bohuna Street resident, survived the bombing with a head injury. Her three children were uninjured, but had to crawl out from under the rubble after the explosion.[1] Local emergency services recorded 38 men and 9 women killed by the bombing and 18 people injured.[5]
AsAmnesty International was unable to identify a legitimate military target nearby, it said the attack could be awar crime of the invasion.[1]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) found no evidence of a "significant [military] target in or near the intersection when it was hit, ... pointing to a potentially deliberate or recklessindiscriminate attack." HRW called for theInternational Criminal Court investigation in Ukraine and the United NationsCommission of Inquiry to decide if a war crime had occurred and to hold to account the people responsible. The HRW investigation included telephone interviews with three witnesses and two other Chernihiv residents, and analysis of 22 videos and 12 photographs. The witnesses interviewed by HRW stated that they were unaware of military targets or operations in the neighbourhood.[4]
A bomb crater consistent with a 500 kg bomb was found.FAB-500 bombs were known to be used in the 2022 Russian invasion.[1]
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