In the Donetsk region
Russian missile attack on a cafe – three children killed
Paramedics prepare to transport an injured man to a nearby clinic. photo
© National Police of Ukraine/AP/dpa
A Russian missile hits a café in Kramatorsk. Eight people die, including three children. Rescuers continue to search under the rubble for possible victims.
After a Russian missile attack on a cafe in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk in the area In Donetsk, the death toll has risen to at least eight.
Authorities said on Wednesday morning that three children were among the victims who were pulled from the rubble of a cafe that was hit. Two of the children were born in 2008, one in 2011. The number of injured was given as 56. The night before, at least 3 dead and more than 40 injured had been mentioned. According to the authorities, emergency services continued to clear debris to look for possible victims.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyj had condemned the new attack on the city of Kramatorsk in his evening video address on Tuesday as another war crime. “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.” The Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko had previously announced that the Russian army had shelled Kramatorsk twice on Tuesday evening, hitting a bar, among other things.