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At least 25 people were killed and dozens were injured on September 30 in what Ukraine says was a Russian missile attack on a convoy of civilian cars in Zaporizhia. The events occurred hours before Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the decree to annex that area of the country and three other regions, despite international rejection.
Dozens of bodies lie in the streets and others in the vehicles where they were transported. A cat is also dead along with a young man in the back seat of his car. The cars are full of belongings, blankets and suitcases. It is the scene after the impact of three S300 missiles against a convoy of civilians, in Zaporizhia, southern Ukraine.
kyiv points out that the attack, which left at least 25 people dead and dozens wounded, was carried out by Russian troops occupying several towns in that region.
The caravan was gathering outside the city of the same name to leave Ukrainian territory controlled by kyiv to visit relatives and deliver supplies in a Russian-occupied area, authorities said.
But then the car windows shattered from the impact of the missiles and their sides were sprayed with ammunition fragments, a witness told Reuters.
The Russian Army “knows that columns are formed here to go to the occupied territories. They had the coordinates (…) It is not a coincidental blow. It is perfectly deliberate,” said Colonel Sergey Ujryumov, head of the department’s explosives disposal unit. of Zaporizhia Police.
Russia denies deliberately targeting civilians. Vladimir Rogov, an official in the Kremlin-installed administration in the region, blamed the attack on Ukrainian forces.
The region where the attack occurred is one of the four that Vladimir Putin will formally annex this September 30, after some questionable referendums that the international community denounces as “false” and “illegal”.
“The enemy is furious and seeks revenge for our steadfastness and their failures. He cynically destroys peaceful Ukrainians because he lost everything human a long time ago,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
Putin signed the decree annexing four Ukrainian regions
In the neighboring country, Russian President Vladimir Putin formalized the annexation of the territories of Donetsk and Lugansk, in eastern Ukraine, and Kherson and Zaporizhia, in the south of the invaded country.
In the last few hours, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, a key Putin ally, said the Kremlin leader had notified the lower house of parliament of his plans for the award, a technical step toward annexation by Russia. Moscow.
Indeed, the Russian president signed the decree with which he formalized this measure and announced that his country will defend its land “with all forces and means.”
Putin called on Ukraine to end hostilities, which have already been going on for seven months and thousands of victims, and return to the negotiating table; an invitation that comes after the “definitive” annexation of the Ukrainian regions in dispute after the holding of referendums in those regions that took place between September 23 and 27.
kyiv, the United States and the European Union, among other governments, assure that the voting took place under coercion of the population by the invading troops. According to the electoral authorities imposed by Moscow, the consultations backed the “Yes” of the annexation with up to 96%.
With the annexation of the four Ukrainian regions despite international rejection and while the hostilities on the ground continue to add victims -as in Zaporizhia-, the war in Eastern Europe is entering a new phase that exceeds estimates of a conflict that has plunged in uncertainty to populations in confrontation.
With Reuters, AP and local media
