After the rocket attack on a restaurant in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, a suspected coordinator of the attack has been arrested. With the discovery of another body in the rubble, the official death toll rises to twelve.
After the Russian attack on a restaurant in Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine, a suspect was arrested, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He is accused of coordinating the attack.
“Today the Ukrainian secret service, together with special police units, arrested the person who coordinated the terrorist act,” said Zelenskyy in his evening video address. He also expressed his condolences to the families of all the victims.
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Another fatality recovered salvage work completed
A pizzeria was hit in a rocket attack in Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region on Tuesday. According to the latest information, another body was recovered from the rubble of the destroyed restaurant. The official death toll rises to twelve, more than 60 people were injured. According to the information, three children are among the dead, including two 14-year-old twin sisters.
The rescue work has now been completed, the authorities said. She also released a video showing the work and drone footage of the extent of the destruction. In addition to the restaurant, apartments, shops, cars and a post office were damaged, as well as several other buildings.
Russia denies attack
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov dismissed Russia’s responsibility shortly after the missile attack. When asked about the attack, he said Russia was only attacking military targets in Ukraine, not civilian ones. “Attacks are carried out only on objects that are in some way connected to military infrastructure,” he stressed.
President Zelenskyj sharply condemned the attack: “Such terror proves to us and to the whole world again and again that Russia deserves only one thing for all its deeds: defeat and a tribunal.”