At least 26 people have died and 81 have been injured andn a Russian missile attack on a humanitarian convoy in Zaporizhia, in southern Ukraine, reported the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office.
“People leave the regional center every day to support their families, deliver vital medicines to the civilian population and return,” Ivan Fedorov, mayor of Melitopol, Russian-occupied territory, also said on Telegram, detailing that there are residents of that population among the victims.
Subsequently, the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Mykhailo Fedorov, has shared images of the scene of the attack, where several destroyed cars can be seen and in which what could be the corpses have been pixelated. “Russia is a terrorist statewhich does not value human life and disregards internationally recognized wartime rules,” he added.
According to the Ukrainian authorities, the health services and rescue teams immediately went to the scene.
A different version is the one given by Russia. The Russian administrator of the occupied region of Zaporizhia, Vladimir Rogov, has also spoken on Telegram, where he has accused the Ukrainian forces of being behind the attack: “They have fired on a group of cars waiting to move to liberated territory at the departure from Zaporizhia”, he said.
“It is the classic Anglo-Saxon provocation against the disloyal civilian population,” he said, before stressing that “it has been done according to the classic formula of ‘they have shot themselves,’ with the subsequent accusations against Russia.” Rogov assures that these people had “blocked the road asking to be allowed to go to liberated territories”, he added.
This attack has occurred just on the day that the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, intends to annex four dand the regions busy after some referendums not recognized by the West, among which are Zaporizhia, Donetsk, Lugansk and Kherson.
Source: Lasexta
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