The inhabitants of Kramatorsk laid flowers on a memorial located at the central station of this Donbass city where a Russian strike left 61 dead on April 8, 2022.
This is the mission “more difficult” that the NGO Save Ukraine had to carry out. “Today we welcome 31 more children to their homes who had been illegally taken by Russians from occupied territories”, announced on social networks the head of the NGO Save Ukraine, Mykola Kuleba. Franceinfo takes stock of what to remember from the day on Saturday April 8.
More than 30 children illegally taken to Russia back home
These children, who were able to reach their country on Saturday, had been taken to Russia from the regions of Kharkiv and Kherson, detailed the association whose main mission is to fight what it qualifies of “deportations” of Ukrainian children. Allegations denied by Moscow, which claims to have “Safe” these children by keeping them away from the fighting.
In addition, at least 467 children have died since the start of the conflict, according to the office of the general prosecutor of Ukraine, which announces this assessment on Telegram. More than 946 were injured, says the prosecutor’s office, which adds that these figures are not final.
Ukrainians commemorate bombing of Kramatorsk railway station
It is one of the deadliest attacks targeting civilians fleeing advancing Russian forces. Residents of Kramatorsk laid flowers on a memorial located at the central station of this Donbass city. As a reminder, a Russian missile strike killed 61 people on April 8, 2022, as thousands of civilians rushed there to flee the war. The bombardment had also caused more than 160 wounded among the crowd who had gathered in this station to be evacuated.
Hundreds attend funeral of pro-Kremlin military blogger
Several hundred people flocked to the Troyekurovskoye cemetery in western Moscow for the funeral of famous pro-Kremlin military blogger Maxim Fomin. This close associate of the Wagner group, known under the pseudonym of Vladlen Tatarskiï, was killed on Sunday April 2 in a bomb attack during a conference in a café in Saint Petersburg.
A large police force has been deployed, with careful control at the entrance to the cemetery. Many of the people in the procession wore clothes stamped with a Z or a V, as a sign of support for the war in Ukraine. The leader of the Wagner paramilitary group, Yevgeny Prigojine, was also present.
Leak of classified documents ‘intended to divert attention’, kyiv says
The recent publication, on social networks, of classified American military documents, aims “divert attention, sow doubt and suspicion, sow discord”, assured Volodymyr Zelensky’s adviser, Mykhaïlo Podoliak. “It’s an ordinary Russian secret service game. Taking open briefings, adding fake news or parts of intercepts and posting it on social media claiming it’s a ‘leak’,” he added.