Deadly attack in Kramatorsk claims 11 Lives, including 3 children

A restaurant in Kramatorsk, located in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, was struck in a Russian attack on Wednesday resulting in the death of 11 individuals, including three children.

Over 60 people were reported to have been injured, while emergency services managed to rescue seven individuals from the rubble.

Here is a roundup of Wednesday’s events in Ukraine:

Ukrainian authorities have made progress in their investigations, arresting a person accused of aiding the Russians in carrying out the attack. The Ukrainian counter-intelligence service claimed that this individual was connected to the Russian special services and played a role in directing the missile strike that caused the casualties.

Furthermore, the Ukrainian government appointed a new head for Ukroboronprom, a state-owned weapons producer, with the aim of increasing ammunition and military equipment production, establishing an effective anti-corruption infrastructure within the company, and transforming its operations.

Additional reports indicate that a 70-year-old woman was injured in shelling within the Kupiansk district, as confirmed by Oleh Synyehubov, the governor of Kharkiv. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s air force destroyed six Shahed drones, with two being shot down over the Cherkasy region and two others hitting an empty warehouse.

Ukraine’s defense minister revealed that Ukrainian forces have made undisclosed progress and that the majority of troop reserves have yet to be deployed. The minister stated that the recapture of small villages from Russian occupation in recent weeks was not the main event in Kyiv’s planned attack.

Reports from an individual claiming to be one of the Russian-imposed leaders in the occupied Zaporizhzhia region mentioned explosions in the city of Polohy, near the train depot. However, these claims have not been independently verified.

In another incident, the governor of the Belgorod region in Russia, Vyacheslav Gladkov, alleged that more than 200 people had their water supply interrupted following a cross-border strike by Ukraine.

Lithuania’s president, Gitanas Nausėda, announced that his country would provide Ukraine with two Nasams launchers. Nausėda visited Kyiv and expressed gratitude to the Croatian parliament for recognizing the Holodomor as a genocide.

According to the New York Times, it was reported that Gen Sergey Surovikin, the deputy commander of Russia’s military operations in Ukraine, had prior knowledge of a planned rebellion by the mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin against Moscow’s defense officials.

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