On the anniversary of the Kramatorsk shelling on April 8, when Russia launched a missile attack on the railway station, which was then one of the main evacuation points for residents of Donbass, a minute of silence was announced at Ukrainian railway stations.
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A year ago, on April 8, 2022, the explosion of the Russian Tochka-U rocket at the railway station, from where local residents were evacuated, killed 60 people, including 7 children, injured 111 people, including 17 children.
At the time of the explosion, more than 4,000 people were at the station waiting to be evacuated.
Ukraine accused Russia of shelling, and the Russian Ministry of Defense, in response to the accusations, stated that the strike was allegedly delivered by a missile division of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the area of the city of Dobropolye, 45 km southwest of Kramatorsk.
A week after the shelling, the BBC conducted its own investigation, in which it found out that a rocket with a cluster warhead had been fired at Kramatorsk.
At the end of February, the international human rights organization Human Rights Watch, together with the SITU research group, found evidence that the missile was launched from the Tochka-U missile system located in the then Russian-occupied village of Kunye, 25 km from Izyum in the Kharkiv region.
The shelling violates the laws of war and can be qualified as a war crime, according to Human Rights Watch and SITU Research.
A criminal and horrific Russian military strike on a train station in Kramatorsk killed and injured civilians as they desperately tried to escape the fighting to escape the city, said Richard Wier, Senior Crisis and Conflict Specialist at Human Rights Watch. – The terrible consequences of the use of cluster munitions for the accumulation of civilians should make the Russian military think again and stop using this weapon banned in the world.
Source: Racurs
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