The head of the Donetsk regional military administration, Pavlo Kirilenko, has highlighted in his Telegram account that fifty people have lost their lives, five of them children. Among these victims are at least twelve of the 98 wounded evacuated to hospitals in the area.
The event was first reported by the person in charge of the railway station, Oleksander Kamishin, and by an authority in the area of Donetsk -where Kramatorsk is located- which is not in the power of Russia, and led to emphatic condemnations from the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyand of the European Union (EU).
Right away, Russia stated that it did not launch any attack on the station. of Kramatorsk and went further by pointing out that “Tochka-U tactical missiles, whose fragments were found in the surroundings of the Kramatorsk station and (whose images) were released by witnesses, are only used by the Ukrainian armed forces”.
“All the statements of the representatives of the nationalist regime in kyiv about the alleged ‘rocket attack’ carried out by Russia on April 8 at the railway station in the city of Kramatorsk they are a provocation and they are absolutely false“, the ministry said in a statement released by the RIA Novosti news agency, whose report was picked up by the AFP and Sputnik news agencies.
In turn, the spokesman for the pro-Russian Donetsk militias, Eduard Basurin, attributed the attack, which he described as a “provocation”, to Ukraine.
A reporter from the AFP news agency who went to the station this morning saw hundreds of people waiting for a train to leave the region, threatened by a major Russian offensive, towards safer parts of the country.
Several charred cars and the remains of a missile were visible in front of the Kramatorsk station. The place was littered with abandoned suitcases, broken glass and debris. The interior of the station was covered in blood, often trampled and spread out into the street, due to the movement of bodies.
Zelensky immediately called the attack an act of “unrestrained evil.”
“Since they do not have the strength or courage to face us on the battlefield, they cynically destroy the civilian population. It is an evil without limits. And if it is not punished, it will never stop,” the president said on Telegram, denouncing the methods “inhuman” of the Russian forces.
The head of diplomacy of the European Union (EU) Josep Borrell condemned for his part “firmly” the attack and accused Russia of wanting to “close the evacuation routes” of civilians.
Kramatorsk is located in an area of Donetsk province not controlled by the self-proclaimed People’s Republic of the same name, a Russian-speaking region of Ukraine that rose up in arms eight years ago, after kyiv did not comply with certain autonomy measures to which it had been committed to in the 2014 and 2015 Minsk peace agreements.
Donetsk and other province, Luganskmake up the region of donbaswith a majority of the population of Russian culture and language, which has been claiming its independence from Ukraine and the current objective of the Russian military invasion.
Minutes before the confirmation of the attack by Kamishin, the head of the Donetsk regional military administration, Pavlo Kirilenko, had pointed out that “Russian Nazis” fired an Iskander missile at the scene.
Source: Ambito
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