Published October 06,2023
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The UN human rights workplace has referred to as a Russian airstrike that killed 52 individuals in Ukraine on Thursday “one of the deadliest” since Moscow’s warfare started.
“What is clear is that the strike is one of the deadliest since Feb. 24, 2022, but of course, it is far from being the only one,” spokesperson Elizabeth Throssell instructed a UN press briefing in Geneva on Friday.
Such an assault underscores as soon as once more “the terrible price civilians are paying,” Throssell stated on the assault, in “what appeared to be a Russian missile (that) struck a cafe in the (Hroza) village, where people had gathered for a wake” within the northeastern Kharkiv area.
The village is reportedly close to no army or industrial targets.
“So far, our colleagues in the Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) have established the names of 35 people who were killed-19 women, 15 men, and an 8-year-old boy, and the names of five women and one man who were injured,” she stated.
“One Ukrainian soldier who was attending his father’s funeral was among those killed, according to the authorities.”
Noting that earlier than the warfare, the village’s inhabitants was about 300, she stated: “It is not clear how many residents were still living there, but it is clear that with the high number of people killed, everybody in this small community has been affected.”
The rights workplace is aware of that at the least eight households had multiple relative killed within the assault, she stated.
She added: “We stress once again that international humanitarian law, in particular the rules on the conduct of hostilities, must be strictly respected.”
Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), additionally spoke on the topic, saying that the humanitarian coordinator in Ukraine, Denise Brown, condemned the assault.
UN companies and Ukrainian NGO companions are mobilizing help for civilians within the space together with medical provides and well being assist, shelter upkeep kits, non-food gadgets, money, and hygiene help in addition to psychological well being and psycho-social assist, Laerke underlined.
He famous that Brown is touring to Hroza at present to see firsthand how the humanitarian group can assist the individuals affected.
Source: www.anews.com.tr