The President of Ukraine asked on Tuesday to bring “Russian terrorists” to justice for the bomb attack in Kramatorsk, in the eastern province of Donetsk, which left at least eight dead and 56 injured.
“Each of these manifestations of terror repeatedly demonstrates to the entire world that Russia deserves only one thing as a result of everything it has done: defeat and a fair and legal trial against all Russian murderers and terrorists,” Volodymyr Zelensky said.
Zelensky also referred to the anniversary of a Russian attack on a shopping center in the city of Kremenchuk that left more than 20 people dead.
“Exactly on the anniversary of the attack by Russian terrorists in Kremenchuk, in the shopping center, in which 22 people died, the Russian savages again fired missiles at the Kremenchuk region,” he said in a speech, quoted by the news agency. Europa Press news. .
The president also thanked the United States for the new aid package also announced on Tuesday, worth 500 million dollars (456 million euros), with ammunition for Patriot anti-aircraft systems and artillery pieces.
According to the Ukrainian Prosecutor’s Office, the attack on Kramatorsk has already caused the death of eight people, including three children, but it is possible that there are more victims under the rubble. In addition, 56 people were injured, including an eight-month-old baby.
The Russian attack on Kramatorsk hit a restaurant, Ukrainian Interior Minister Igor Klymenko said on the Telegram platform.
“A restaurant and several houses were damaged,” the official said.
The regional governor of the Donetsk province, Pavlo Kyrylenko, said on television that the restaurant was hit by two rockets and that there was “a large concentration of civilians.”
According to the official, “several houses, shops, cafes and other establishments were damaged near the impact site,” adding that the attack is “another war crime” committed by the Russians against civilians on Ukrainian soil.
The city of Kramatorsk had about 150,000 inhabitants before the invasion of Ukraine on February 24 last year, and is the last major urban concentration under Ukrainian control in the east, some 30 kilometers from the front.
Source: TSF
