Five people were killed in Ukraine by a Russian bombing of a humanitarian aid distribution center in orikhiv (center), according to a new report communicated on Monday by the regional governor, who denounced a “war crime”.
“Unfortunately, there are already five [muertos]. They just pulled the body of a man from the rubble,” the governor announced. Yuri Malashkoquoted by the agency Interfax-Ukraine.
A previous balance reported four deaths.
Malashko said on the Telegram messaging app on Monday morning that three women and a man had been killed. He told Ukrainian television later Monday that the body of a fifth victim, a man, had also been pulled from the rubble.
Eleven people were injured in the attack and are being treated at the hospital, Malashko added.
The Ukrainian attorney general said in a statement that the attack took place on Sunday around 1:20 p.m. (1020 GMT) and also injured 13 people.
According to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, the attack targeted a university “when the civilians received humanitarian aid.
“An aerial bomb totally destroyed the building,” the ministry said on Telegram, explaining that nearby residential buildings and civilian infrastructure were also damaged.
Orikhiv, a city that had about 14,000 inhabitants before the war, is located in the region of Zaporizhzhyaone of four Ukrainian territories that Russia claimed to have annexed in 2022, though its military does not fully control them.
The city is close to the front linewhere Ukrainian forces have been trying since early June to retake positions from Russian forces.
The Attorney General’s office had said on Monday that the incident was being investigated as a war crime.
Emergency services said, before Malashko’s subsequent comments, that search and rescue operation continued and it was feared that three people were still under the rubble.
Two other people were killed by Russian shelling in the east, Ukrainian officials said.
The prosecutor’s office said that two people died and three were injured Monday in the Russian bombing of the town of host and the city of Avdiivka in the Donetsk region.
The Ukrainian army is conducting a counter-offensive to try to recapture Russian-occupied territory in the Zaporizhzhia region.
(With information from AFP and Reuters)
Keep reading:
Satellite images revealed where the soldiers of the Wagner Group are based in Belarus
Zelensky returned from Turkey with five commanders who resisted in Mariupol: “We bring our heroes home”
Ukraine sealed an unexpected alliance with Bulgaria focused on the supply of ammunition
The Russian tale of the loose beast
What hides the enigmatic return of Prigozhin to Russia
A commander of the Wagner Group revealed the details of his transfer to Belarus after the mutiny against the Kremlin
Source-www.infobae.com