Still very marked by the last two strikes, which left the country heavily in mourning, Ukraine is preparing for a particularly harsh winter.
A second bombing came to mourn Ukraine, Friday October 6, in Kharkiv, just a few hours after suffering the tragedy of Groza, where 52 people died. Civilians were targeted in these two bombings, while Moscow claims to only strike “military targets”. The Ukrainian president has announced that he is preparing for a particularly harsh winter for his people. Here’s what to remember from this day.
Two dead after bombing of Kharkiv
“The body of a 10-year-old child was found in the rubble”, Ukrainian Interior Minister Igor Klymenko said on Telegram on Friday. The child’s grandmother also lost her life in this strike on Kharkiv, in the northeast of the country. The Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, reacted with emotion and with his “condolences” to the family of the victims.
At least 28 people were also injured in the strike, including an eleven-month-old baby who is part of the same family as the two victims.“Two apartment buildings were damaged and a three-story residential building [a été] destroy”, specified the Minister of the Interior. There Police said two Iskander ballistic missiles hit the buildings.
In a town near the Russian border, Vovchansk, a residential building was also bombed on Friday. An elderly man suffered “severe burns” and two women were injured, according to the governor of the Kharkiv region.
Four people, including two children, still missing in Groza
Still in the Kharkiv region, four people, including two children, remain untraceable in Groza, said local police, relayed by The world. This village of 330 souls was heavily mourned the day before, by a Russian strike which fell on a group, on the sidelines of the funeral of a Ukrainian soldier. At least 52 people, including a child, were killed, according to the latest report from the regional governor.
>> Our report on site in Groza
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced a “inhumane terrorist attack” against this town in eastern Ukraine. “By deliberately targeting the Ukrainian civilian population, Russia is once again guilty of atrocities constituting war crimes”also put forward the French government. Asked about the attack, the Kremlin said Friday it only struck “military targets” and not civil.
Ukraine prepares for a difficult winter
Ukrainians are “fully aware of the danger” as winter approaches. “Russian terrorists will try again to destroy our electricity system”assured Volodymyr Zelensky, Friday October 6, on his Telegram account.
During this season last year, Russia increased massive bombings on essential infrastructure for kyiv. Millions of Ukrainians have had to deal with power cuts, plunging them into cold and darkness.
Washington expels two Russian diplomats
The United States retaliates after the expulsion “unfounded” but decided by Moscow, by two American diplomats. Russia announced in mid-September that it would expel two members of the American diplomatic corps. They were accused of having served as agents of “connection” to a former Russian employee arrested earlier this year. The latter is suspected of having transmitted to Washington information on the conflict in Ukraine, to the detriment of Russia.
Three weeks later, the American State Department did the same by summoning “two officials from the Russian embassy in the United States” to quickly leave the country, declared a spokesperson for American diplomacy.