A Russian attack on Tuesday in Kramatorsk, in eastern Ukraine, left at least eight dead and 56 injured, according to a new balance made this Wednesday by the country’s emergency services.
Among the fatalities there are three children, the Ukrainian emergency services reported on the Telegram platform.
“Rescuers are searching through the rubble of the destroyed building and looking for people who are likely to be under the rubble,” he added.
The President of Ukraine asked, on Tuesday, to bring the “Russian terrorists” to court for the aggression against this city in the Donetsk province.
“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.
The Ukrainian 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.
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
