The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) detained an alleged Russian intelligence agent who would have given instructions to the Russian Army during the bombardment in the city of Kramatorsk, which has left more than 12 dead and 70 injured, almost all the results of an explosion. in a pizzeria in the center of the city. Among the victims, so far, three minors have died as a result of the attack.
The suspect worked for a gas transportation company and lived in Kramatorsk. The authorities affirm that he would have discreetly filmed the establishment and the vehicles that he had parked nearby to send it to the Russian military intelligence service. “There is no doubt that the Russian agent will be tried in a Ukrainian court,” SBU chief Vasil Maliuk said.
According to the Ukrainian Security Service, the suspect had been remotely recruited by Russian military intelligence, for which he was a sleeper agent. “On June 27, 2023, he received instructions to find out if the cafe was open,” Ukrainian authorities said.
In the middle of that attack, the Colombian writer, Héctor Abad, along with the former Peace Commissioner Sergio Jaramillo and the journalist Catalina Gómez, were injured, as well as the 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.
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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