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They are carrying out Moscow's orders to the letter.
Not only will they leave the
Kiev
region with their tails between their legs, like a Goliath defeated by David, after failing the express conquest that
Vladimir Putin
had drawn in his delusions of a Soviet rebirth.
In addition to leaving behind a trail of horrors that continues to shock democratic nations, the Russian army seems determined to replicate the degree of savagery in
Bucha
and
Mariupol
in the east of the country, its next target.
On Friday they launched a missile at the
Kramatorsk railway station
for which thousands of
children, women and elderly
they are escaping from the war that is ravaging their homes and that is going to intensify in the coming weeks.
At the moment, there are
50 people who have died and more than 100 who were injured
after the missile hit the building, according to the Ukrzaliznytsia railway company.
Its director, Oleksander Kamyshin, has stated that it was
"a deliberate attack"
and that a few days earlier, three trains had to stop due to bombing.
"The inhuman Russians do not abandon their methods. Not having the strength and courage to oppose us on the battlefield, they cynically exterminate the civilian population," Ukrainian President
Volodimir Zelensky
wrote on social media .
"This is an evil that has no limits. And if he doesn't punish himself, he will never stop doing it."
And both the aforementioned company and
Pavlo Kirilenko
, who is at the head of the Donetsk military administration, have shown photographs on their social networks where bodies could be seen lying on the ground along with luggage scattered everywhere and charred cars.
Also, AFP has reported, the remains of a missile with the phrase
"For our children"
were seen .
This slogan has been used on occasions by pro-
Russian separatists
in their attacks in revenge for the sons they have lost in the
Donbas
war they have been waging since 2014 with the Ukrainian state.
As expected, the government of
Vladimir Putin has denied that he had anything to do with the massacre
.
"All statements by the representatives of the nationalist regime in kyiv about the alleged 'rocket attack' carried out by Russia on April 8, at the Kramatorsk city railway station, are a provocation and are absolutely false," The Ministry of Defense has declared from Moscow, with the usual language that they use in the communiqués that they usually spread by the RIA Novosti press agency.
They added that the onslaught was intended to "prevent the civilian population from leaving the city in order to use it as a human shield."
And they went even further in their explanations by detailing that the missile was launched by their enemies from the Ukrainian city of Dobropillya, about 45 kilometers from Kramatorsk.
In the opposite direction, the head of the Donetsk regional military administration,
Pavlo Kirilenko
, has stated .
In his Telegram account he has written that "Russian fascists attacked the Kramatorsk train station with an Iskander" and that
"thousands of people were at the station at the time of the missile attack, while Donetsk residents were evacuated to the safest regions of Ukraine"
.
Initially, the Ukrainian authorities have indicated that it was two Tochka-U missiles, but the pro-Russian militias in Donetsk have assured that they do not have this weapon in their arsenal, and in the latest information only one missile is mentioned.
In any case, the massacre will add to the record of
war crimes and crimes against humanity
that Vladimir Putin's forces have been committing for six weeks and that cannot be concealed.
The Ukrainian authorities have, to date, reported
1,200 cases in the Kiev region alone
, a figure that continues to rise daily and can skyrocket in eastern Ukraine.
Both the Commission of Inquiry of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the International Criminal Court are investigating the allegations.
The ruthless attack in Kramatorsk is added to those perpetrated against the humanitarian corridors in Mariupol, which the Russian troops have not respected despite having been agreed upon at the negotiating table they set up in Turkey and which has not yielded results.
In addition to what happened at the station and the mass murders of defenseless citizens in Bucha, Zelensky has denounced new atrocities in the kyiv region.
He has indicated that
under the ruins of Borodianka they will find "even more victims"
than in the small town, a prediction in which he agrees with the Ukrainian prosecutor general,
Iryna Venediktova
.
For her, it is "the most destroyed city in the region" and only in the rubble of two buildings, they had already found 26 bodies.
"Only the civilian population was the target of the attacks: there is no military base here
," she said.
Precisely this string of heinous crimes that the world is discovering in shock, is pushing the G7 nations and the European Union to tighten the pressure with increasingly harsh economic and diplomatic sanctions, and
to give the green light to the supply of new weapons to Ukraine
, the last one worth
500 million euros
.
And it was the reason for the
visit to Kiev on Friday
by the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the head of foreign policy, Josep Borrell, to meet with Zelensky and show him personally the support of the EU to your country.
But the sanctions on Russia, a country that continues to receive
700 million euros a day
for the sale of gas and oil to European nations, are affecting the entire planet, already heavily hit by the economic crisis caused by Covid.
The FAO (UN Food and Agriculture Organization) announced Thursday that
the war in Ukraine has pushed world food prices
to "an unprecedented level."
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