At least eleven people have died and more than 60 have been injured in the missile attack perpetrated last night by Russian forces that hit a pizzeria in Kramatorsk, in eastern Ukraine. In that same attack, Colombian writer Héctor Abad, along with former Peace Commissioner Sergio Jaramillo and journalist Catalina Gómez, were injured, as well as Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina, who suffered a serious skull fracture.
In a phone call with the EFE news agency, Colombian writer Héctor Abad described the moment a Russian missile hit the pizzeria as if the explosion “came out of the bottom of the earth.” While the former Peace Commissioner, Sergio Jaramillo, defined the fact as a very strong, very dry sound. “Everything started to fly after that,” Jaramillo said.
After the bombardment, which until now has been declared a military success for the Moscow military forces, Abad looked at those who until a moment ago shared dinner and a conversation where they exchanged jokes about the dry law that has governed Ukraine for months.
“When I managed to get up I saw that Victoria was very pale, still, sitting; Although we called her, she did not react (…) There were many cries of despair, of horror, and people running, journalists, women, young people, old people “, she recounted.
The Ukrainian writer was transferred to a hospital where she continues to receive treatment at the moment, although her state of health is unknown. Jaramillo and Abad had traveled to eastern Ukraine to learn firsthand about Russian war crimes.
The Russian attack on Kramatorsk has been one of the deadliest in the last weeks of the war against Ukraine and has been condemned by the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelensky. For its part, the Russian Army assured that a command post of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the city was destroyed in this attack against the civilian population.
With information from EFE
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