According to Ukrainian sources, a Russian missile hit a restaurant during an attack on Kramatorsk. Rescuers found at least eight dead, including three children, under the rubble.
According to official sources, at least eight people were killed and at least 56 others injured in a Russian rocket attack on the city of Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine. The state emergency service announced on its social media channels that three children were among the dead.
“Rescue workers are searching the rubble of the destroyed building, looking for people likely to be under the rubble,” the emergency services added.
Tuesday’s attack destroyed the Ria Pizza restaurant in the city center, popular with journalists and military personnel. In addition to the restaurant, apartments, shops, cars and a post office as well as several other buildings were damaged, the prosecutor said on Telegram.
conflicting parties as a source
Information on the course of the war, shelling and casualties provided by official bodies of the Russian and Ukrainian conflict parties cannot be directly checked by an independent body in the current situation.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his evening video address: “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.”
Kramatorsk was a city of 150,000 before the war and is the last major city under Ukrainian control in the east of the country. It has also been the target of Russian attacks in the past.
armaments boss fire
It had previously become known that Zelenskyy had fired the head of the state-owned armaments company Ukroboronprom. The presidential office in Kiev issued a decree dismissing Yuriy Husyev. He has held the post since December 2020. According to media reports, the 31-year-old boss of the tank plant in Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine, Herman Smetanin, will be the successor.