At least 20 people have died this Tuesday in a bombing against the yarova village, in Donetsk province, in eastern Ukraine ,. The attack, has specified the Ukrainian leader, has reached the civilian population while gathering his pensions. Zelenski has spread a video in his social networks in which you can see the lifeless bodies of several people, all of them civil, next to a van of the tornstied post office.
According to the first information, the bombing took place at the time when a group of pensioners awaited the distribution of the benefits together with a mobile unit of the Ukrainian postal service, UKRPOSHTA. Therefore, most fatalities are expected to be older people. He has assured that the driver of the van and the Chief of Post Office are alive.
Vadim Flashkin, head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration, has encrypted in 21 the injured in the attack. “This is not a military action, it is pure terrorism,” said Flashkin in a note. “Rescuers, doctors, police and local authorities work there. We are helping the victims and determining the exact consequences of this crime.”
“These Russian attacks should not be left without an adequate international response,” Zelenski remarked in his message. “The Russians continue to destroy lives, but avoid new sanctions and forceful attacks. The world should not remain silent.” The Ukrainian leader has called for the “reaction” of the United States and Europe to the killing of civilians. “Stock measures are needed to prevent Russia from continuing to cause deaths,” Zelenski continued.
The town of Yarova, located in the Kramorsk district, remains under the control of the Ukrainian authorities, although only eight kilometers from the so -called gray zone, the line that separates the two sides. that he still does not have in his possession.
Yarova is northeast of one of the main logistics routes of the Ukrainian army, which leads from Sloviansk, passing through Kramorsk, to Kostiantinivka. That route, attacked daily by Drones and Russian artillery, is today one of Moscow’s main military objectives. Last week, Zelenski warned that Russia has deployed 100,000 soldiers in the Pokrovsk sector, southwest of that route, to launch a great offensive that allows it to control all of Donetsk.
