The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Ukraine, Pascal Hundt, told the broadcaster he had never seen so much suffering anywhere else than Ukraine at the moment.
Ukraine’s Attorney General’s Office accuses Russia of committing a war crime in the rocket attack on the Kramatorsk train station, which killed more than 50 people. “Absolutely, this is a war crime,” Ukrainian attorney general Iryna Venediktova told British broadcaster Sky News on Sunday. It was a Russian missile that killed more than 50 people who were waiting with their children to be evacuated.
“They were women, they were children, and they just wanted to save their lives,” Venediktova said. There is evidence that it was a Russian attack.
Venediktova accused Russia of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in all regions of Ukraine. She described Russian President Vladimir Putin as the “greatest war criminal of the 21st century”. Ukraine has identified 5,600 suspected war crimes cases involving 500 suspects.
The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Ukraine, Pascal Hundt, told the broadcaster he had never seen so much suffering anywhere else than Ukraine at the moment. Basically, you see the same truly horrifying and heartbreaking image across the country, he said. People lived in appalling conditions without food, electricity, water or heat. “The level of suffering that we’re seeing is immense, and I don’t remember seeing it in recent history,” Hundt said.
According to regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko, the station was hit by a Tochka-U short-range ballistic missile. They contained cluster munitions. Cluster munitions, also known as cluster munitions, are not used in a targeted manner. It contains many smaller bombs and therefore deploys a very large radius of action. It is particularly dangerous because no distinction is made between civilian and military targets. Cluster munitions are banned by a 2008 convention. Russia has not signed this convention and has denied that such weapons are used in Ukraine.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby previously said Russia’s official denials after the train station attack were unconvincing. “Our assessment is that it was a Russian attack and they used a short-range ballistic missile to carry it out,” he said.
(APA/DPA)