“Evil knows no bounds.” In a statement, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia “deliberately attacking civilians” after a rocket attack hit Kramatorsk station in the Donbass on Friday 8 April and caused “at least 39 dead and 87 injured”, report it Guardian.
According to Oleksander Honcharenko, the mayor of this city in eastern Ukraine, near “4,000 people were at the station at the time of the attack”. Ukrainian President, “in a video to the Finnish Parliament claimed that no Ukrainian troops were in the station at the time of the attack”, adds the British daily. Volodymyr Zelensky added:
“There are witnesses, there are videos, there are missile debris and dead bodies.”
According to the latest report from the Ukrainian security services, four children are among the victims. “Ukraine denounces a targeted attack against civilians trying to evacuate the area”, Explain The weather. “The Russian army denies being at the origin of the shooting.”
The Russian Ministry of Defense even called it “provocation” the Ukrainian accusation on the firing of a missile in Kramatorsk, explains CNN, echoing the “recent denials of the massacre of civilians in Boutcha”. The statement states:
“On April 8, the Russian Armed Forces neither conducted nor planned artillery fire in the city of Kramatorsk.”
However, according to Pavlo Kyrylenko, the governor of the military administration of the Donetsk region, the Russian forces “knew where they were aiming and what they wanted”reports the Financial Times.
The President of the European Council Charles Michel spoke of a “horrible” attacks and asserts that“it made it necessary to adopt new sanctions, while discussions are underway in Brussels on a new series of measures”, recalls the British business daily.
Josep Borrell also condemned the attack on Twitter, as the head of European diplomacy and Commission President Ursula von der Leyen are on their way to kyiv, where they are to meet Volodymyr Zelensky this Friday, in a sign of support for the ‘Ukraine.