Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he expects the international community to react decisively to a rocket attack on a train station in the city of Kramatorsk that killed more than 50 people, which he described as a deliberate Russian offensive.
“We expect a strong global response to this war crime,” he said in a speech Friday night. He reiterated his call for a full embargo on Russian energy and for all Russian banks to be excluded from the international financial system.
“Any delay in the supply of (…) arms to Ukraine, any refusal, can only mean that these politicians want to help Russia more than we do,” he added.
According to the Ukrainian authorities, 52 people were killed and 109 were injured in the rocket attack in Kramatorsk, which hit a railway station where trains were waiting for 4,000 people to leave.
Kyiv blames Moscow forces for the attack. Moscow denies it. A Russian Defense Ministry official told the RIA news agency that the weapon that struck the train station was used exclusively by the Ukrainian army and that no target had been set for the Russian army in Kramatorsk yesterday.
The governor of the region, Pavlo Kirilenko, said the attack was carried out with a Tochka U short-range ballistic missile, a dispersal weapon. Russia denies using such missiles, banned under a 2008 international convention, in the war in Ukraine.
The United States has said it does not believe “the Russians’s denial of responsibility.”
President Zelensky welcomed the European Union’s willingness to provide financial and technical support to the investigation and documentation of Russian crimes in Ukraine.
The White House also announced that it would support the investigation into the Kramatorsk attack.
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