Update: Death toll in Kramatorsk missile attack rises to 12 as rescue operation is completed.

Rescuers retrieved another person's body from the rubble at the site of Russia's June 27 missile strike on Kramatorsk, which brings the total death toll to 12, reported[1] Ukraine's State Emergency Service. The number includes three children, two born in 2008 and one in 2011. Another 60 people were injured, including a child.

The search and rescue operation is completed. On June 27, Russian forces fired[2] two Soviet-era S-300 missiles at Kramatorsk. One of them hit a restaurant in the city center, popular with volunteers, journalists, and soldiers, who all often use Kramatorsk as a base of operations in Donetsk Oblast.

Among the injured at the restaurant are at least three foreigners, according to the regional governor, Pavlo Kyrylenko. Another missile struck the neighboring Bilenke village. President Volodymyr Zelensky called[3] Russia's missile strike on Kramatorsk "a manifestation of terror."

"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," said Zelensky.

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[4] Dinara Khalilova

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Dinara Khalilova is a news editor at the Kyiv Independent.

She has previously worked as a fixer and local producer for Sky News.

Dinara holds a BA in journalism from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and a Master's degree in media and communication from Bournemouth University in the UK.

References

  1. ^ reported (t.me)
  2. ^ fired (kyivindependent.com)
  3. ^ called (kyivindependent.com)
  4. ^ Kyiv's frustration boils as flow of Western chips for Russian missiles continues uninterruptedDestroyed apartments, burnt-out cars, lives upturned or extinguished altogether: Russia's June 13 missile attack on the city of Kryvyi Rih was, in many ways, nothing out of the ordinary for wartime Ukraine.

    The evening after the attack, which killed 13 civilians, President Volodymyr Zelensky came o... (kyivindependent.com)

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