Russia strikes UN aid convoy in Ukraine
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Russian forces struck a UN aid convoy in the partially-occupied southern Kherson region of Ukraine, Kyiv said Tuesday, adding there were no casualties in the attack.
The head of the region’s military administration said the Russian drone and artillery attack happened near the frontline town of Bilozerka.
“The occupiers deliberately targeted UN OCHA trucks with drones and artillery,” local official Oleksandr Prokudin wrote on social media.
He said there were four vehicles in the convoy and that “one vehicle burned down, another was seriously damaged,” with the two others unscathed.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga called the strike “another brutal violation of international law, proving Russia’s utter disregard for civilian lives and its international obligations.”
There was no immediate comment from the United Nations on the incident, and no immediate reaction from Moscow.
Prokudin published a photo showing a white truck marked with the World Food Programme emblem on fire with plumes of black smoke rising about it.
Ukrainian authorities and aid groups have said throughout the nearly four-year Russian invasion that their staff and facilities have come under bombardment from Moscow’s forces.
AFP
