2023-06-28 11:39:38
The balance is at least nine dead.
At least nine people died and fifty were injured, according to a new balance on Wednesday, in a Russian bombardment once morest a restaurant in Kramatorsk, in eastern Ukraine, where three Colombians suffered minor injuries, including the writer Héctor Abad Faciolince and the former peace commissioner Sergio Jaramillo.
Fuente: AFP
The bodies of nine people, including three minors, were recovered from the rubble and 56 people were injured, including a child born in 2022,” the Ukrainian Emergency Service said on Telegram.
Rescue operations are continuing, he added, noting that seven people were found alive in the rubble.
The attack took place on Tuesday at the Ria Pizza restaurant, a popular establishment among soldiers and journalists in Kramatorsk, the last major urban center under Kiev control in the east of the country.
According to Ukrainian police, Russia launched two S-300 surface-to-air rockets at the city, which had a population of 150,000 before the war.
Three Colombians were slightly injured in the attack: former peace commissioner Sergio Jaramillo, novelist Héctor Abad Faciolince and reporter Catalina Gómez, a correspondent for several media outlets, including El Tiempo, the first two reported in a statement posted on Twitter.
– “Latin American Solidarity” –
The three were having dinner in the restaurant together with the 37-year-old Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina, who “is in critical condition due to a head injury, probably caused by flying glass and beams,” the text states.
Abad and Jaramillo had traveled to the Ukraine to “express the solidarity of Latin America with the people of Ukraine in the face of the barbaric and illegal Russian invasion.”
Abad is an internationally renowned writer known for the novel “El olvido que seremos”, a literary success made into a film in 2020.
Jaramillo, for his part, is a politician and negotiator of the 2016 peace agreement with the guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
In addition to the restaurant, there was damage to apartments, shops, vehicles, a post office and other buildings, according to the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office.
An AFP journalist saw a large deployment of ambulances, police and military, as well as numerous residents gathered in front of the bombed restaurant.
A dusty cook, Roslan, 32, said that at the time of the attack “there were quite a few people” in the restaurant and pointing to himself, he added: “I was lucky.”
Lying west of the devastated city of Bakhmut, scene of the war’s longest and bloodiest battle, Kramatorsk has been hit by numerous Russian bombing raids.
The deadliest occurred at the city’s railway station in April 2022, leaving 61 dead and more than 160 injured just weeks following the start of the Russian invasion as many civilians sought to leave the town.
Kramatorsk, a major railway junction, has been the de facto regional capital since the cities of Donetsk and Lugansk were captured in 2014 by Moscow-backed pro-Russian separatists.
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