US President Joe Biden on Friday accused Russia of committing a ‘horrible atrocity’ after at least 50 people, including five children, were killed in a bombardment on the Kramatorsk train station in eastern Israel on Friday. Ukraine.
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“The attack on a Ukrainian train station is yet another horrific atrocity by Russia, beating civilians trying to evacuate to safety,” he said in a tweet.
AFP journalists on the spot saw at least thirty bodies in body bags or under tarpaulins in front of the station.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has denounced “unbounded evil” unleashed by Russia and “inhuman” methods.
Moscow denied being responsible for this bombardment, claiming not to have the type of missile which would have been used and denouncing a Ukrainian “provocation”.
Kramatorsk is in the part of Donbass under Ukrainian control. The rest of this region has been controlled since 2014 by pro-Russian separatists, and Moscow has made the conquest of this area its priority objective after withdrawing its troops from the kyiv region and northern Ukraine.
kyiv will benefit for this new phase of the conflict from an S-300 air defense system provided by the Slovak government, which Joe Biden thanked in a press release on Friday.
This donation was made possible by NATO sending four Patriot missile defense batteries to Slovakia.
“As Russian forces reposition themselves for the next phase of this war, I have instructed my administration to continue to spare no effort to identify and provide the Ukrainian military with the modern weapons it needs to defend its country. added Joe Biden.