He added - in his speech to an episode of "Beyond the News" program (10/2022) that Moscow is carrying out these strikes to alert Kyiv and make it stop its attacks, stressing that the Russian operations fall within the framework of "reaction", as he saw that Russia does not It adopts the "bankrupt strategy", and does not oppose the Geneva Convention, but rather bombs facilities that help supply Ukrainian forces with military equipment.
This came after Russia targeted with dozens of missiles - which it described as high-precision - what it said were military and energy management centers in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Vinnytsia, Cherkasy and Zaporozhye.
While the Ukrainian authorities described these attacks as massive, saying that their aim was to destroy the country's infrastructure, and to make the lives of Ukrainian civilians an unbearable hell.
For its part, the Russian Defense Ministry said that its forces carried out attacks with long-range and high-precision weapons on military and energy management centers in Ukraine, and the ministry said - in its daily statement - that 70 Ukrainian soldiers were eliminated in Kherson, and 8 command centers were targeted, as it described.
On the legal situation, the military and strategic expert Major General Fayez Al-Duwairi explained that the Geneva Convention established laws organizing war, the most important of which is that the war must end in achieving its goals, in the fastest way and in the least appropriate time, as well as with the least possible damage, explaining that the law of proportionality requires that the tools of conflict be proportional. With the nature of the objectives set.
"Soft and Loose" goals
Based on these legal instructions, Al-Duwairi saw that what is happening in the Ukraine war, especially from the Russian side, has exceeded Article 4 of the Geneva Convention, noting that the Russian military leadership has begun to become convinced that it does not have the military force capable of achieving its political goals, and therefore resorted to “soft” goals. or soft" unprotected.
On the Ukrainian side, Oleksiy Melnik, the former assistant minister of defense of Ukraine expressed his astonishment at Russia’s logic that it is responding to the strikes on Ukraine, noting that Russia is the one who bombs civilians and infrastructure, nearly 40% of which have been destroyed or partially damaged, while military facilities are located Outside cities and residential areas, it has its own electrical system.
The mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, confirmed that the supply of potable water was cut by 80%, in addition to the power outage in the capital;
As a result of bombing targeted vital infrastructure facilities.
As for the Kyiv region police chief Andrei Nebitov, he said that the bombing resulted in casualties, and a number of buildings were damaged.
In the same context, the Ukrainian Prime Minister said that electricity has been cut off in hundreds of municipalities in 7 regions of the country.
A Ukrainian presidential official, Kirillio Tymoshenko, described the missile attacks on electrical installations as "terrorist."