This week marked another escalation in Russia’s illegal war of aggression against Ukraine with increasingly indiscriminate and bloody shelling of civilian areas. Missile and drone strikes targeted again Odesa and the capital Kyiv.

This comes in addition to Russian indiscriminate attacks on civilian infrastructure in Kherson region using heavy artillery, hitting notably a large supermarket, railway station and a petrol station. The latest of these Russia’s barbarities killed over 20 people and injured almost 50 in Kherson – all of them civilians. This reckless killing of civilians and destruction of civilian infrastructure must stop immediately.

 These indiscriminate Russian attacks against civilian facilities constitute war crimes. The EU has made it clear that there will be no impunity for the commanders, perpetrators and accomplices of these atrocities. The EU remains committed to hold all of them to account.