Two days after the end of a ceasefire unilaterally decided by Vladimir Putin for Orthodox Christmas, the market in the village of Shevchenkove was bombed, killing at least two women, Ukrainian authorities reported on Monday 9 January.
“The enemy has again deliberately struck a civilian target: the local market.
There are no military personnel in Shevchenkove.
If it was not a Monday today, there would be many more victims,” denounced Oleh Synehoubov, prefect of the Kharkiv region where the locality is located.
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“We were lucky because the stores were closed but passers-by were injured,” laments a resident.
“The last few weeks have been a little calmer.
I did not expect something like this to happen again, ”comments another, devastated, a few meters from the huge crater formed by the impact of the missile, a ground-to-air S-300.
The prefect announced the imminent opening of an investigation for "crime against humanity".