According to Ukrainian authorities, Russia had a partner in the attack. Zelenskyy confirmed that the Ukrainian secret service, together with special police units, arrested the person who allegedly coordinated the terrorist act.
After the Russian attack on the city of Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine, with at least eleven dead, an alleged man behind it has been arrested. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his evening video address that the Ukrainian secret service, together with special police units, had arrested the person who allegedly coordinated the terrorist act. He also expressed his condolences to the families of all the victims.
Artem Dekhtyarenko, spokesman for the Security Service of Ukraine, said: “The counterintelligence department of the Security Service of Ukraine has arrested an agent of the Russian Federation special service who was involved in the coordination of the Russian rocket attack on a cafe in the center of Kramatorsk on April 27. June was involved.”
A pizzeria was hit by a rocket attack in Kramatorsk, in the Donetsk region, on Tuesday. According to the latest information, at least 11 people died and more than 60 were injured. According to Ukrainian sources, three children were among the dead. People are still looking under the rubble for possible victims.
Numerous countries condemned a bomb attack which Brussels described as a “demonstration of terror”. The Kremlin, for its part, denies having attacked military targets in Ukraine. Moscow claims the targets are facilities linked to military infrastructure, in this case a temporary deployment point for a Ukrainian army brigade.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s counter-aggression war to oust the Russian army continues. There is fighting on several front lines, where Kiev says it has retaken positions in both Donetsk and the southern province of Zaporizhia in recent days.