Kramatorsk (Ukraine), 27/06/2023. A handout picture provided by the Press Service of the National Police shows Ukrainian rescuers and police officers at work at the site of a rocket hit in downtown Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, on June 27. June 2023 in the midst of the Russian invasion. According to the state police report, two S300 rockets hit Kramatorsk, killing at least two people and injuring 22 others. In February 2022, Russian troops invaded Ukrainian territory, sparking a conflict that left destruction and a humanitarian crisis in its wake. (Russia, Ukraine) EFE/EPO/National Police of Ukraine / HANDOUT HANDOUT HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NOT FOR SALE
The total number of victims of an attack on a restaurant in Kramatorskin Ukraine, on Tuesday evening, 27. According to the Ukrainian police, the Russia fired two S300 surfacetoair missiles at the city. The attack destroyed the Ria Pizza restaurant frequented by journalists and the military. Among them was the Colombian writer Hector Abad. A crowd gathered at the scene of the attack, where fires were still burning, while soldiers and rescuers searched for victims. Dustcovered chef Roslan, 32, said “there were quite a lot of people” in the restaurant. Natalia, crying, said that her brother Nikita, 23 years old, was in the pizzapreparation zone and that rescuers failed to extricate him from the rubble.
the governor of Donetsk, Pavlo Kyrylenko, reported that two Russian rockets hit the city of Kramatorsk, which had a prewar population of 150,000 and is the last major Ukrainiancontrolled urban center in the east of the country. Several nearby buildings were also hit in the attack on the city that Russia has targeted since the start of its invasion of Ukraine. “People told me they heard a plane fly, there was a noise and then an explosion,” a 19yearold Ukrainian soldier who called himself Ghost and was near the crime scene told AFP. He ran to the restaurant to help rescue workers. “One girl was trapped and injured. “They still haven’t managed to get her out of there,” he lamented.
*With information from AFP