Post by Magnolia on Oct 3, 2022 2:02:59 GMT
Russian missiles have destroyed a humanitarian convoy in southern Ukraine today, leaving at least 23 civilians dead.
Rockets hit a queue of cars driving out of the Ukrainian-occupied city of Zaporizhzhia into nearby Russian-occupied territory in the early hours of Friday.
Oleksandr Starukh, the Zaporizhzhia regional governor, said at least 28 people had also been wounded in the strike, and all of the victims were civilians.
The attack took place just hours before a speech by Vladimir Putin in which he will announce the Zaporizhzhia region - along with Donetsk, Luhansk and Kherson - are being annexed to Russia under the guise of protecting them.
Russian missiles have struck a civilian convoy heading out of the Ukrainian-occupied city of Zaporizhzhia into nearby Russian-occupied territory, killing at least 23 people
Photos from Zaporizhzhia showed a road littered with blown-out cars and at least two bodies lying on the ground, as survivors picked their way through the rubble.
One witness reported seeing about 12 bodies, four of them in cars, and said a missile had left a crater in the ground near two lines of vehicles at a car market.
The impact had thrown chunks of dirt ino the air and sprayed the vehicles with shrapnel.
The windows of the vehicles - mostly cars and three vans, were blown out.
The vehicles were packed with belongings, blankets and suitcases.
In one of them, the body of a man was leaned from the driver's seat into the passenger seat, his left hand still clutching the steering wheel.
Oleksandr Starukh, governor of Zaporizhzhia, wrote on Telegram: ' The enemy launched a rocket attack on a civilian humanitarian convoy on the way out of the regional center.
'People stood in line to leave for the temporarily occupied territory, to pick up their relatives, to take away aid.
'Rescuers, medics, and all relevant services are currently working at the site.'
Plastic sheets were draped over the bodies of a woman and young man in a green car in the next car in front.
A dead cat lay next to the young man in the rear seat.
Two bodies lay in a white mini-van in front of that car, its windows blown and the sides pitted with shrapnel.
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The cars were bringing humanitarian aid into Russian-occupied territory when they were struck by multiple missiles early on Friday
A woman who gave her name as Nataliya said she and her husband had been visiting their children in Zaporizhzhia.
'We were returning to my mother who is 90 years old.
We have been spared. Itâs a miracle,' she said, standing with her husband beside their car.
Russia denied being responsible for the strike, instead blaming it on Ukraine.
It came ahead of a major speech that Putin will give in the Kremlin today, officially announcing his intention to annex occupied regions of Ukraine to Russia.
Russian-backed proxy-governments in four regions of Ukraine that Russian troops at least partially occupy - Kharkiv, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia - have spent recent days staging referendums on the issue.
Conducted at gunpoint, they claim the ballots returned overwhelming majorities for joining the 'motherland'.
Ukraine and its allies have denounced the votes as a sham and say they will never recognise the results, but the move never-the-less marks a turning point in the war.
From today, Putin will be able to spin the lie - to his own people at least - that Ukrainian efforts to liberate these regions are in fact attacks on Russia.
Provided the public buy into the lie, that would allow him to escalate the war in response - potentially up to and including the use of nukes.
Putin himself threatened to use nuclear arms in a speech last week, and his allies - including Dmitry Medvedev, head of the security council - have repeated the threat several times since then.
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Rockets hit a queue of cars driving out of the Ukrainian-occupied city of Zaporizhzhia into nearby Russian-occupied territory in the early hours of Friday.
Oleksandr Starukh, the Zaporizhzhia regional governor, said at least 28 people had also been wounded in the strike, and all of the victims were civilians.
The attack took place just hours before a speech by Vladimir Putin in which he will announce the Zaporizhzhia region - along with Donetsk, Luhansk and Kherson - are being annexed to Russia under the guise of protecting them.
Russian missiles have struck a civilian convoy heading out of the Ukrainian-occupied city of Zaporizhzhia into nearby Russian-occupied territory, killing at least 23 people
Photos from Zaporizhzhia showed a road littered with blown-out cars and at least two bodies lying on the ground, as survivors picked their way through the rubble.
One witness reported seeing about 12 bodies, four of them in cars, and said a missile had left a crater in the ground near two lines of vehicles at a car market.
The impact had thrown chunks of dirt ino the air and sprayed the vehicles with shrapnel.
The windows of the vehicles - mostly cars and three vans, were blown out.
The vehicles were packed with belongings, blankets and suitcases.
In one of them, the body of a man was leaned from the driver's seat into the passenger seat, his left hand still clutching the steering wheel.
Oleksandr Starukh, governor of Zaporizhzhia, wrote on Telegram: ' The enemy launched a rocket attack on a civilian humanitarian convoy on the way out of the regional center.
'People stood in line to leave for the temporarily occupied territory, to pick up their relatives, to take away aid.
'Rescuers, medics, and all relevant services are currently working at the site.'
Plastic sheets were draped over the bodies of a woman and young man in a green car in the next car in front.
A dead cat lay next to the young man in the rear seat.
Two bodies lay in a white mini-van in front of that car, its windows blown and the sides pitted with shrapnel.
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The cars were bringing humanitarian aid into Russian-occupied territory when they were struck by multiple missiles early on Friday
A woman who gave her name as Nataliya said she and her husband had been visiting their children in Zaporizhzhia.
'We were returning to my mother who is 90 years old.
We have been spared. Itâs a miracle,' she said, standing with her husband beside their car.
Russia denied being responsible for the strike, instead blaming it on Ukraine.
It came ahead of a major speech that Putin will give in the Kremlin today, officially announcing his intention to annex occupied regions of Ukraine to Russia.
Russian-backed proxy-governments in four regions of Ukraine that Russian troops at least partially occupy - Kharkiv, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia - have spent recent days staging referendums on the issue.
Conducted at gunpoint, they claim the ballots returned overwhelming majorities for joining the 'motherland'.
Ukraine and its allies have denounced the votes as a sham and say they will never recognise the results, but the move never-the-less marks a turning point in the war.
From today, Putin will be able to spin the lie - to his own people at least - that Ukrainian efforts to liberate these regions are in fact attacks on Russia.
Provided the public buy into the lie, that would allow him to escalate the war in response - potentially up to and including the use of nukes.
Putin himself threatened to use nuclear arms in a speech last week, and his allies - including Dmitry Medvedev, head of the security council - have repeated the threat several times since then.
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