2023-07-11 07:14:58
At least seven people have died in an attack carried out this Monday by Russian forces against a humanitarian aid delivery point in the Ukrainian city of Orijiv, located in the province of Zaporizhia (southeast), as denounced by the Ukrainian authorities.
“The search operations have been completed. On July 10, the rescue teams recovered the bodies of three people with no signs of life under the rubble. The death toll has risen to seven people,” the Search Services have published on Monday. Emergencies of Ukraine in your Telegram account.
Previously, the governor of Zaporizhia, Yuri Malashko, reported on his Telegram account about the death of four people (three women and one man) in said attack. Malashko added that “the enemy has launched 36 attacks against ten peaceful towns in the Zaporizhia region“, before detailing that a 65-year-old man has been injured in Novodanilivka. “The enemy will answer for all crimes,” he settled.
For her part, the United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Ukraine, Denise Brown, has condemned the attack and confirmed that “a water distribution point installed and maintained by a partner of the UN Humanitarian Fund for Ukraine was also destroyed in the stroke”.
“After 500 days of Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine, civilians continue to be killed and injured,” he said, before stressing that “the Orijiv population has lived under constant bombardment for many months,” according to a report. statement issued by his office. “As I have said many times and as I will continue to say, Humanitarian Law is clear: civilians, civilian infrastructure and humanitarian assets must be protected. There must be investigations into these violations,” Brown said. “The people of Ukraine need our support more than ever. We will continue to help those who are most in need,” he concluded.
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