Ukraine
Attack on cafe in Kramatorsk – Suspect arrested
Rescuers work in the rubble of a restaurant in Kramatorsk, Ukraine. photo
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At least 11 people die in a Russian missile attack on a cafe in Kramatorsk. While emergency services are still looking for people buried under the rubble, a suspect is arrested.
After the Russian attack on the eastern Ukrainian city Kramatorsk with at least eleven dead, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyj, a suspected backer has been arrested. “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.
A pizzeria was hit in a rocket attack in Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region on Tuesday. According to the latest information, at least 11 people have been killed and more than 60 injured. According to Ukrainian sources, three children are among the dead. People are still searching under the rubble for possible victims.
Popular meeting place for foreign journalists and soldiers
According to Ukrainian media, the destroyed café near the Kramatorsk hotel was a popular meeting place for volunteers, foreign journalists and soldiers.
The Colombian aid organization Aguanta Ucraina (German: Stay steadfast, Ukraine) announced that its representatives were among the injured: Politician Sergio Jaramillo, writer Héctor Abad Faciolince and journalist and war chronicler Catalina Gómez were at dinner with the Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina slightly injured. Meanwhile, the writer is in a coma with severe head injuries.
Zelenskyj had already condemned the attack as another war crime on Tuesday. “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.”