The UN Secretary General said.landed” and the EU condemned the new “atrocitiesThursday after Russian airstrikes hit a city in central Ukraine, killing at least 23 people.an overt act of terrorismFor the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky. In Vinnytsia, far from the front line, west of the capital Kyiv, pictures released by Ukraine’s Emergency Service showed dozens of charred bodies and a nearly ten-story building destroyed by an explosion and subsequent fire.
According to the Ukrainian military.three rockets” hit the parking lot and this commercial building in the center of town that houses offices and small shops. They were shot down from submarines in the Black Sea, said Yuri Ignat, the representative of the Ukrainian Air Force. “Every day, Russia kills civilians, kills Ukrainian children, fires missiles at civilian objects where there is nothing military. What is it, if not open terrorism?– said Vladimir Zelensky immediately after the strike, which took place late in the morning in a region of the country that until then had been relatively spared from the war.
The Russian Defense Ministry, quoted in Telegram by Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of the public media group Rossiya Segodnya, said it had targeted Vinnytsia.The officers’ house where the nationalists were stationed“. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said.landed“, reminding that the organization condemned “any attack on civilians or civilian infrastructure“, according to his press spokesman.
The EU criticized “barbaric behaviorFrom Russia. “The atrocities in Vinnytsia are the latest in a long line of brutal attacks targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure.This was stated in the statement of EU foreign policy officer Josep Borel and EU crisis management commissioner Janeš Lenarcic. “There can be no impunity for violations and crimes committed by Russian forces and their political leaders“.
These new blows came just as preparations were being made in The Hague for a conference dedicated to the crimes committed in Ukraine, organized by the International Criminal Court (ICC), the European Commission and the Netherlands. Volodymyr Zelensky called for the creation of “special court“responsible for judging”Crimes of Russian aggression against Ukraine“. Before the Hague conference, which was attended by the ministers of justice and foreign affairs of the EU countries, he announced about 20 dead.including three children“and”a lotfrom the wounded.
Ukrainian aid later revised this number upwards to 23 dead and 39 missing. The head of Ukrainian diplomacy, Dmitry Kouleba, who is present in The Hague, condemned the new “Russian war crime“. At the same time, the OSCE also expressed alarm over Moscow’s treatment of Ukrainian civilians.filtration campsdetermine possible connections with the armed forces. “If so, these people become separated from others and often simply disappear.– OSCE experts emphasize in the report.
Source: Le Figaro
