Russia accused the Ukrainian Army this Sunday of committing war crimes for the alleged bombings on Saturday of two hospitals in Lugansk and Kherson, and again warned NATO for the “indifference” shown to those attacks but also for providing intelligence information to execution, which makes the countries of the Atlantic Alliance, according to Moscow, direct participants in the conflict.
Russia denounced on Saturday that at least 14 people were killed and another 34 wounded in a Ukrainian airstrike on a hospital in Novoaidar.in the Moscow-controlled area of the eastern Lugansk region.
The attack, he claimed, was through a system of US-supplied Himars multiple launch rockets.
For that reason, the Kremlin accused Washington of being directly involved in the war in Ukraine, just as it accused NATO for both the “lack of reaction exhibited” and for providing “satellite intelligence” which served as the basis for these attacks.
It was not the only attack that Moscow reported: it also said that on Saturday, in the city of Nova Kakhovja, in the Kherson region, 17 rockets hit, a third of which hit the area of the local hospital, Until now there is no record of victims.
“The indifference of the United States and other NATO countries to this monstrous trampling of international humanitarian law by kyiv once again confirms its direct involvement in the conflict and in the crimes that are being committed,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
“All these acts of criminal lawlessness perpetrated by the kyiv armed groups, under the auspices of the West, will not go unpunished. They are carefully registered. The organizers and perpetrators will suffer unavoidable punishment,” the ministry said in a statement.
The Ukrainian authorities did not comment on these accusations, but they did denounce numerous attacks against Kherson city, the capital of the homonymous region, which would have left several dead and hit a hospital.
The Ukrainian administration of the city reported that the first shelling began last midnight and hit a utility company.
Russia, the administration says, has since launched six more attacks, one of which hit a hospital and injured a nurse.
The provisional balance of victims from these bombings, according to Ukraine, was one deceased and two injured, counting the health worker.
But later the local authorities spoke of new clashes in the Zaporizhia region.
“The enemy artillery hit residential areas,” the Kherson regional administration said in a message on social networks, which reported three fatalities and six wounded, including a nurse.
According to this same source, the bombardment caused damage to a hospital, a school, a bus station, a post office, a bank agency and homes.
On the other hand, the person in charge of the The pro-Russian administration of Zaporizhia, Evgeny Balitsky, accused the Ukrainian army of “bombing with (American) Himars missile launchers a railway bridge spanning the Molochnaya River.”
“Four members of the railway agents were killed and five were injured,” he said.
The Sputnik agency also gave the same death toll for the attack on the Melitopol bridge.
Meanwhile, the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz said he will continue to try to end the war in Ukraine through direct negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
It was during an interview with the local press, published this Sunday, that Scholz is in Chile after having been yesterday in Argentina.
“I will speak to Putin again on the phone, because we need to talk to each other. It is up to Putin to withdraw troops from Ukraine and stop this terrible senseless war that has already cost hundreds of thousands of lives,” Scholz said. and stressed that as long as Russia continues the war “with the current level of aggression, the situation will not change.”
The foreign minister then recalled that previous telephone conversations with Putin “were not rude in tone”, although he accepted that the Russian leader insisted that he wants to “forcibly annex parts of his neighboring country”, which is “unacceptable”.
But the Kremlin immediately clarified that “there are no plans for agreed talks”, although it made it clear that Putin “has been and continues to be open to contacts”, according to spokesman Dmitri Peskov, according to the RIA Novost agency.