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Russia's attack on hotel with journalists in Kramatorsk: investigators look into targeted strike

Sofia Polonska
4 September, 2024 Wednesday
18:12

Russian occupation forces could have deliberately attacked the Sapphire Hotel in Kramatorsk, where foreign journalists were staying, on the night of August 25

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Anastasia Medvedeva, a spokeswoman for the Donetsk Regional Prosecutor's Office, told Radio Liberty.

‘Prosecutors and pre-trial investigation bodies have sent relevant inquiries to individual institutions: the answers to these inquiries will help us find out the possible location of the missile launch, its direction of movement and trajectory. These data will help us to calculate who exactly carried out this attack on civilians. One of the versions of the investigation is that it was a targeted attack on the hotel building,’ she said.

According to her, preliminary data from forensic experts indicate that the Russian army used an Iskander-M ballistic missile. The forensic explosive examination of the missile fragments is currently underway.

Anastasia Medvedeva also commented on the possibility of adjusting the attack on the hotel.

‘All this information is currently being checked. The pre-trial investigation authorities are trying to find out this information. A pre-trial investigation is underway, and after its completion, we can already talk about some results and say whether there were so-called fire controllers,’ the prosecutor's representative summed up.

  • On the night of August 25, the Russian army hit Kramatorsk with Iskander missiles, striking a hotel. Six people were injured and one died. Among the casualties were journalists from Ukraine, the US, Britain, and Poland.
  • Later it became known that a British journalist Ryan Evans, who worked for Reuters, was killed in a Russian strike on a hotel in Kramatorsk.
  • On the evening of August 26, it became known that the number of casualties of the Russian strike on the hotel in Kramatorsk had increased to 8 people.
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