Russia Kills 11 People, Including Four Children, in Missile Attack on Ukraine Pizza Restaurant
Four children were among 11 individuals killed in a June 27 Russian missile strike on a crowded pizza restaurant in eastern Ukraine’s city of Kramatorsk. Dozens of other children were among the 60 wounded from the two Iskandar missiles.
The strike occurred at 7:23 p.m. local time, a time analysts say was selected because the popular establishment, Ria Lounge, was sure to be full of diners.
Russia deliberately targeted crowded areas.
—Ihor Klymenko, Ukrainian minister of Internal Affairs
A massive fire was ignited by the strike, which damaged 18 buildings, 65 homes, 7 schools and part of a shopping center and injured five more civilians.
Each such manifestation of terror proves over and over again to us and the whole world that Russia deserves only one thing as a result of everything it has done—defeat and a tribunal, fair and legal trials against all Russian murderers and terrorists.
—Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukrainian president
Meanwhile, a separate June 27 report detailed Russia’s illegal execution of 77 Ukrainian civilians who had been held in arbitrary detention. “We documented the summary execution of 77 civilians while they were arbitrarily detained by the Russian Federation,” Matilda Bogner, head of the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, said at a press briefing in Geneva. She called it “a war crime” and “a gross violation of international human rights law.”
The report said more than 91 percent of civilians detained by Russian forces show evidence of being tortured: “Russian armed forces, law enforcement and penitentiary authorities engaged in widespread torture and ill-treatment of civilian detainees.”
The Trumpet said: “[Russian President Vladimir Putin] is a cruel, calloused tyrant with an intense determination to emasculate the West—especially America—to expand Russian power, and to establish Russia as the world’s leading nation,” theTrumpet.com managing editor Brad Macdonald wrote in our January 2016 issue. “This man is a killer. He needs to be feared and respected. He is changing the course of history.”
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