Russian air strike hits Kramatorsk community again
According to Ukrainian authorities, two women were killed and a third woman was injured.
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An air strike on the community around Kramatorsk in Ukraine’s Donetsk region killed two women and injured a third on Wednesday, according to Ukrainian authorities. The report comes from an area that has been under sustained Russian attacks. Independent verification of what happened and which weapons were used was not immediately available.
The attack took place on Wednesday afternoon in the Kramatorsk community, according to Ukrinform. The Ukrainian source bases the death toll and reports about the injured woman on local authorities. Little is known from the available information about the exact location, damage to buildings and the circumstances in which the victims were killed or injured.
Kramatorsk is in Donetsk oblast and is considered an important urban centre in the Ukrainian-controlled part of the region. The city and surrounding places are regularly hit by Russian missile and bomb attacks. In recent days, Associated Press also reported attacks on other parts of Ukraine, including energy facilities and medical sites.
Russia and Ukraine regularly accuse each other of attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure. In this specific case, the claim of Russian responsibility comes from Ukrainian authorities, and no independent inspection of the site is available. We therefore draw no conclusions about what happened beyond what the source allows.
The new attack comes on top of a series of earlier incidents in the region. According to AP, emergency services had previously been dealing with the aftermath of attacks on an aid site, while power facilities were hit in other parts of the country. Taken together, the various incidents paint a picture of continued pressure on the civilian population and infrastructure.
For the Netherlands, the event is primarily relevant as part of the ongoing war on Europe’s outer border. New attacks could worsen the humanitarian situation and affect the prospects for negotiations, but this individual report does not indicate whether the war is entering a new military or diplomatic phase.
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The new attack and reported death toll are current and come from a Ukrainian source. The text makes clear which elements have not been independently confirmed.
- confirmed An attack took place in the Kramatorsk community on 4 November. — Reported by Ukrinform on the day of the attack. source
- confirmed Two women were killed and a third was injured. — Reported by local Ukrainian authorities through Ukrinform. source
- confirmed Independent verification of the exact circumstances was lacking. — The available sources contain no independent inspection of the site. source
Editor's note
The death toll and location were reported by Ukrainian authorities through Ukrinform. Russian responsibility and the exact circumstances have not been independently verified.Sources
More on this in Dutch media
- Het Parool — „oekraïne kramatorsk”
- Trouw — „oekraïne kramatorsk”
- NRC — „oekraïne kramatorsk”