This donbass city has been targeted on Friday by a missile strike attributed to Russia. At least 52 people died, including 5 children.
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A new massacre of civilians was committed in Ukraine, Friday, April 8th. A missile shot touched Kramatorsk’s railway station, in Donbass, while several thousand Ukrainians pressed to flee the war. This attack occurred while Russia intensifies its pressure on this Eastern Region of Ukraine. At least 52 dead, including five children, have been identified on Friday night by the Ukrainian authorities. This assessment could, however, evolve, more than a dozen of these victims who died in the hospital, on a total of nearly hundred people injured.
The attack took place at 10:30 am even as the train evacuations resumed after an interruption related to a destruction of part of the railway. It was immediately attributed to Russia, in particular because of the registration in Russian found on the spot on a missile, “for our children”, a recurring expression of the Donbass Prorussian separatists since the beginning of the war in this region. 2014.
According to a police officer at Kramatorsk Station, it was a Tochka-U missile, a “fragmentation bomb”. According to the France-Presse Agency (AFP), which conducted on-site findings, the victims have actually been mowed at least four places of the train station, including the main dock and the forecourt. “The Russians performed two missile strikes and they used cluster munitions,” said Ukrainian Ministry of Defense.
The use of cluster munitions is in principle forbidden since 2008 by an international treaty: the Oslo Convention. But neither Russia nor Ukraine nor the United States are signatories. This is not the first time Moscow is accused of using this type of weapon. On March 28, the Ukrainian General Attorney had declared a “evidence of the use of cluster munitions in the Odessa region and in the Kherson region,” adding that investigations were underway to certify it.
Moscow denial
As at every accusation of abuses, Moscow quickly denied, Friday, any involvement in the Kramatorsk massacre. The Russian Ministry of Defense accused the “kyiv regime” to have “orchestrated” the strike to “prevent the departure from the population of the city so that it can be used as a human shield”. This denial comes, however, after Moscow announced, earlier in the day, destroyed with high precision missiles “weapons” in the Pokrovsk stations, Sloviansk and Barvinkove, not far from Kramatorsk.
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