“This is a war crime,” the European Commission said of last night’s attack on civilians in Ukraine, adding that “there will be no impunity” for Russian fighters and criminals.
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The European Commission warned this Friday that bomb attacks in Ukraine such as those carried out last night by the Russian Armed Forces are a war crime and “there will be no impunity” for all those involved.
“Unfortunately, last night and early today, Russia continued its bombardment of Ukraine with a massive wave of missile and drone strikes All over the country. Once again, the goals were civilians, who sleptsaid the spokesman for the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Peter Stano.
“This is a war crime”Peter Stano said at a press conference in Brussels (Belgium), adding that “there will be no impunity for the commanders, for the criminals and for the accomplices.”
The Ukrainian authorities reported that this morning there were Russian attacks against several Ukrainian cities, which caused at least 16 deaths, having activated the air defense in kyiv.
“This Russian terror must have a fair response from Ukraine and the world,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on the Telegram social network.
“Any attack, any evil act against our country and (our) people brings the terrorist state (Russia) closer to the failure and punishment“, he advanced.
In Uman, a city of about 80,000 in the center of the country, regional police spokeswoman Zoya Vovk said on Telegram that a missile struck a nine-story residential building.
The latest balance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine points to 14 dead and dozens injured in Umanwith more than 100 people living in the attacked apartment blocks, according to the Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform.
“Missile attack [a Uman] he was released while civilians slept. Typical of Russian terrorists,” the head of the Ukrainian presidential office, Andriy Yermak, wrote on Telegram.
Dnipro Mayor Borys Filatov said on Telegram that a young woman and a three-year-old boy had died in the city.
The leader of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Valeri Zaluzhni, said in a statement that the country’s defenses managed to shoot down two drones and 21 of the 23 missiles launched by Russia, including 11 at Kiev.
While Russia has regularly bombed Ukraine’s cities and infrastructure in the winter, mass attacks have become rarer in recent months.
Most of the fighting is now taking place in the east, for control of the industrial region of Donbass, including the city of Bakhmut, which has been almost completely destroyed.
Source: Observadora
