A well-known Ukrainian grain businessman and his wife were killed in the Russian shelling of the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv, with a presidential adviser denouncing “a premeditated murder”.
They are Oleksiï Vadatoursky, 74, owner of Ukraine’s main grain logistics company, Niboulon, and his wife, Raïssa Vadatourska, who were at home at the time of the strikes, according to Ukrainian authorities.
“It is not a coincidence, but a premeditated murder,” Mykhaïlo Podoliak, adviser to the Ukrainian presidency, reacted on Telegram. “The fact that the missile hit the bedroom of his house leaves no doubt: Vadatursky was the target.”
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“He was one of the most important agricultural entrepreneurs in the country, a key figure in the region and a great employer,” said the adviser.
Millionaire and “Hero of Ukraine”, Oleksiï Vadatoursky was the 24th richest Ukrainian on Forbes magazine’s list in 2021. Before the war, his company exported grain to 70 countries.
Mykolaiv “suffered massive shelling today. Probably the strongest so far” since the Russian invasion on February 24, the city’s mayor, Oleksandr Senkevych, wrote in the morning on Telegram.
The Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office also reported two injuries in Mykolaiv and several private houses damaged, as well as a hotel, a sports facility, two schools and a car repair shop.
“A series of explosions” in Kharkiv
Other attacks hit the Kharkiv (east) and Sumy (northeast) regions. Some buildings were damaged in “a series of explosions” in Kharkiv, announced the mayor of the second Ukrainian city, Igor Terekhov.
One person was killed and two were injured in the Sumy region, which has been the target of “more than 50 attacks” in the past 24 hours, according to Governor Dmytro Zhyvytsky.
Pavlo Kyrylenko, governor of the Donetsk region, where Moscow concentrates most of its attacks, said three civilians were killed and eight wounded in Saturday’s shelling.
Call to evacuate the Donetsk region
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on the population on Saturday night to evacuate the Donetsk region in the east of the country, whose cities are the target of deadly bombing, to escape “Russian terror.”
“Hundreds of thousands of people and children are still in the areas of heavy fighting in the Donetsk region… The more people now leave the Donetsk region, the less the Russian army will kill,” he said, assuring that a decision had been taken. the government’s decision on the “forced evacuation” of the region.
Source: BFM TV
