KYIV, Apr 23 – The shelling by Russian aggressors of the buildings of the National Science Centre Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology in 2022 was aimed at causing harm to a nuclear facility and was qualified as ecocide.

This was announced by the head of the department for combating crimes committed in armed conflict, the Prosecutor General's Office, Yuriy Belousov, during a public discussion "Specialized Environmental Prosecutor's Office is 3 years old" at Interfax-Ukraine on Tuesday.