Russian military drones twice targeted a clearly marked United Nations humanitarian convoy in southern Ukraine on Thursday, prompting condemnation from Kyiv and the UN.
The attack took place in Kherson’s heavily targeted Ostriv area, within the Korabelnyi district, while the mission was delivering food and solar lamps to local civilians.
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According to President Volodymyr Zelensky, the targeted vehicle was carrying Andrea De Domenico, head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Ukraine, along with eight other agency staff members.
“The Russians could not have failed to know which vehicle they were targeting,” Zelensky wrote on Telegram, adding that the team was safely evacuated and no injuries were reported.
Speaking at the Washington Foreign Press Center on Thursday, UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher described the incident as a possible “targeted attack.”
“Our people were very, very lucky to escape with their lives,” Fletcher said, adding that the UN was “furious” and would demand “full investigations and accountability,” RFE/RL reported.
President Zelensky said Russia attacked the vehicle with first-person-view drones.
Oleksandr Prokudin, head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration, said UN humanitarian vehicles were hit in the city’s Korabelnyi district.
“In violation of all norms of international law, the Russians attacked vehicles of the humanitarian mission in the Korabelnyi district of Kherson using a drone,” Prokudin wrote on Telegram.
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