Fires, smoke and corpses after the attack on the Kramatorsk train station in eastern Ukraine on Friday. Photo: REUTERS
Ukraine’s president, Volodimir Zelensky, called for “a firm global response” and not just a condemnation, after the bloody bombing on Friday at a train station in Kramatorsk, in the east of the country, where dozens civilians tried to flee from an impending large -scale Russian operation.
Zelensky’s voice rose in anger in his speech on Friday night, when he said the attack in Kramatorsk was another war crime that an international tribunal should consider.
“This is another war crime in Russia for which someone involved has to be held accountable,” Zelensky said in a video message after the missile strike that killed 52 people, including five men, on Friday.
“The world powers have already condemned Russia’s attack on Kramatorsk. We expect a strong worldwide response against this war crime,” he added.
The president affirmed that a great effort would be made “to establish every minute who did what, who gave what orders, where the missile came from, who delivered it, who gave the order and whether how this attack was organized. “
Russia has denied responsibility for the attack and accused the Ukrainian military of firing a missile in a false flag operation to blame Moscow for killing civilians.
A photo posted by Volodimir Zelensky on the Telegram shows the horror at Kramatorsk station on Friday. Photo: AP
willing to talk
Despite anger over Friday’s attack, Zelensky said Saturday that Ukraine remains “ready” to negotiate with Russia, even as talks have been suspended since atrocities were discovered in several nearby cities. in kyiv following the departure of Moscow troops.
“Ukraine has always said it is ready for negotiations and it will look for possibilities to stop the war. At the same time, unfortunately, we are seeing preparations for important battles, some say decisive, in the east. “of Ukraine, the president said.
“We are ready to fight and find a common path to diplomatically stop this war. Right now we are considering maintaining a dialogue alike,” he assured, at a press conference with Austrian Foreign Minister Karl Nehammer, which is in Ukraine.
The latest round of face-to-face talks between Russians and Ukrainians was held on March 29 in Istanbul. There, Ukraine detailed its main proposals with the aim of an agreement with Moscow, including its “neutrality” in exchange for an international agreement to guarantee its security.
Joe Biden’s belief
U.S. president Joe Biden denounced a “horrible atrocity” by Moscow, which, in part, denied its involvement in the attack, making sure it had no type of missile used and the The bombing was a Ukrainian “provocation”. .
Dozens of civilians at a train station in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, sought to escape the war on Friday. Photo: REUTERS
However, a senior U.S. defense official said the Russians had “previously reported a successful attack” and “withdrew only after reports of civilian casualties.”
In fact, the Russian Ministry of Defense informed on Friday about destruction using high-precision missiles of “weapons and other military equipment at the stations of Pokrovsk, Sloviansk and Barbinkove”, locations near Kramatorsk, the “capital” of the Donbas part that is still under the control of kyiv.
Donetsk province governor Pavlo Kyrylenko, quoted by the Interfax agency, confirmed that it was a Tochka U-type missile, with cluster munitions.
The missile crashed around 10:30 am, a time when hundreds of people came to the station for several days to wait for a train to leave the Donbas, the scene of the war between Ukrainian forces and pro- Russian separatist since 2014.
They are in front of the station the twisted missile damage, with the Russian inscription: “For our children”, a phrase commonly used by pro-Russian separatists in the Donbas, referring to their children who have been killed since the clashes began in 2014.
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