(Finance) – It resulted in at least 39 deaths a Russian attack against the Kramatorsk railway station in the Donetsk region: among the victims, according to the security service of Ukraine quoted by Ukrainska Pravda, also 4 children. “For every life killed, Russia will answer before the law “, Kiev said.
Evacuations have been underway since February 26, and the Russians – he said Tetiana Ihnatchenko, spokesperson for the Donetsk regional administration on Ukrainian TV – they knew that thousands of people are there every day “.”I think that’s what they counted on. “
“The occupants hit the Kramatorsk Point U railway station – confirms President Zelensky -, where thousands of peaceful Ukrainians were waiting to be evacuated. Not having the strength and courage to stand up to us on the battlefield, they are cynically destroying the civilian population. This is an evil that has no limits. And if he is not punished, he will never stop. ”Kramatorsk was just the usual railway station in eastern Ukraine where people had gathered to await evacuation. In this way Russia protects the people. Russian speakers in eastern Ukraine?“, Zelensky said in a video message addressed to the Finnish parliament. “Can anyone explain why Russia needs this war? Why shoot civilians with missiles? Why this cruelty? “ Zelensky asked.
The Moscow Ministry of Defense denied that the Russian army bombed the Kramatorsk station talking about “provocation” of the Ukrainians, reports Tass. The fragments of the missile that appear in a video near the Kramatorsk station belong to a Tochka-U carrier, “used only by Ukrainian forces,” the Russian Defense Ministry said, rejecting the accusations of the Kiev authorities, the agency reports. Interfax. Also according to the Russian Defense Ministry, the attack was carried out by a Ukrainian missile battalion from Dobropoly localityAnd. The purpose, adds the ministry, was “to prevent civilians from leaving” to use them as “human shields” by the Ukrainian army: Tass reports.
But Human Rights Commissioner of the Ukrainian Parliament Lyudmyla Denisova argued that “The Russian Criminal Army used a high-precision ‘Iskander’ cluster missile”, states on Telegram.
In these minutes, the comment from the President of the EU Commission has also arrived von der Leyen, in these hours in Kiev to meet Zelensky. “The missile attack this morning on a railway station used for the evacuation of civilians in Ukraine is despicable. I’m horrified by the loss of life and I will personally extend my condolences to President Zelensky. My thoughts go out to the families of the victims “, reads a tweet.