2023-06-28 03:34:51
A rocket strike on Tuesday hit a restaurant in the center of Kramatorsk, a large city in eastern Ukraine, the regional governor said. “Two rockets were fired at the city of Kramatorsk”, at a restaurant in the center, “where there was a large concentration of civilians”, Pavlo Kyrylenko, governor of the eastern region of Donetsk, told television.
The authorities reported at least three dead (including a child) and 42 injured in the strike that hit this establishment in the center of Kramatorsk, popular with both the press and the military. “There are a lot of people down there. There are children under the debris,” confirmed Ievguen, who was dining in the restaurant.
An AFP reporter at the scene of the strike saw ambulances, police, soldiers and the city’s mayor near this restaurant, Ria Pizza, in front of which a crowd of residents gathered. A chef in a dust-covered uniform, Rouslan, 32, said there were “a lot of people” in the restaurant at the time of the strike, pointing to the sky: “I had luck “.
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A missile hit the city center, fellow journalists are injured.
They are hospitalized.
A popular cafe was wiped out and the main supermarket, where I also shop, was hit. pic.twitter.com/uCeHc4j6Zr
— Cyrille Amoursky (@AmourskyCyrille) June 27, 2023
“Colleague journalists are injured,” tweeted correspondent Cyrille Amoursky. Natalia, a woman standing outside, said her half-brother, 23-year-old Nikita, was inside in the pizza-making area. “They can’t get it out (from the debris), it was covered. Tiles fell on him, ”she added, in tears.
A 19-year-old Ukrainian soldier with the nom de guerre “Ghost” was nearby when the strike took place. “The guys told me they heard a plane flying. There was a whistle and then an explosion,” he told AFP. He then entered the restaurant to help. “There was a girl stuck, she was injured. They haven’t released it yet,” he continued.
Kramatorsk, a city of 150,000 inhabitants before the war, is the last major city under Ukrainian control in the East. It is located about thirty kilometers from the front. The city’s train station had been targeted by a strike at the start of the conflict, on April 8, 2022, which left at least 61 dead and more than 160 injured.
This attack takes place one year to the day after the bombing of the Kremenchuk shopping center in central Ukraine, which left at least 18 dead and several dozen injured.
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