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Oct. 10 () –
The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, has condemned this Sunday a Russian attack against a residential building in Zaporizhia with about twenty fatalities.
“A Russian bombardment of a residential building in Zaporizhia has killed at least 17 civilians and injured forty others. The European Union condemns Russia’s relentless attacks on civilians throughout Ukraine, with dozens of victims every week,” Borrell wrote. in a message posted on the social network Twitter.
In addition, the head of European diplomacy has indicated that “all those responsible will have to be held accountable.”
The Ukrainian government described the aforementioned attack as a terrorist act. “These areas have no military purposes. The sole objective of Russia’s deliberate attacks was to cause death and destruction to the civilian population, sow terror and fear,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dimitro Kuleba said in a statement. .
In the note, collected on the Foreign Affairs website, Kuleba indicates that “deliberately attacking civilians is a war crime” and that Russia is a “terrorist state” that must be “contained in the most energetic way.”
The minister has urged the International Criminal Court to “urgently send investigators and experts to the scene to document evidence of Russia’s war crimes” and the United States to designate Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism.
