Ukraine and EU flags near the European Parliament building in BrusselsMOSCOW, Apr 9The Permanent Mission of Russia to the EU against the background of the state of emergency at the railway station in Kramatorsk called on the European Union not to cover up Ukraine's crimes against civilians and to reconsider its position regarding the events around Ukraine, follows from a statement by the Russian diplomatic mission. Earlier on Friday, the territorial defense headquarters of the DPR reported that Ukrainian troops an attack on Kramatorsk, rocket fragments fell near the railway station. According to Eduard Basurin, a representative of the People's Militia of the DPR, about 30 people were killed and about 100 were injured. As the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin stated, two Tochka-U missiles were used during the provocation in Kramatorsk, they are only in service with Ukraine.»Nonhumans, worse than terrorists.» What distinguishes the Ukrainian security forcesAccording to the statement of the permanent mission, after the explosion at the station, a number of EU leaders hastened to blame the Russian armed forces. However, as the Russian permanent mission emphasizes, politicians and respectable media do not see «blatant inconsistencies in the versions being aggressively imposed on them.» In particular, we are talking about the fact that photo and video materials, incl. photographs of a rocket that fell in Kramatorsk, tied to the terrain, show that it could only have arrived from a sector under the control of Ukrainian troops. «We demand that the representatives of the European Union stop the hypocritical anti-Russian hysteria, abandon the cynical tactics of covering up the obvious crimes of their Kiev protégés as against civilians, and prisoners of war,” reads a statement published on the website of the Permanent Mission. The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday that Kiev would not be able to evade responsibility for the strike by the Tochka-U tactical missile on Kramatorsk. strike on the railway station in Kramatorsk. They stressed that the Tochka-U tactical missiles, the fragments of which were found near the Kramatorsk railway station and published by eyewitnesses, are used only by the Ukrainian military. The department recalled that on March 14, a similar Tochka-U missile was struck by Ukrainian troops in the center of Donetsk, as a result of which 17 people died on the spot and another 36 civilians were injured. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.» According to the Russian Defense Ministry, as of March 25, the Armed Forces completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was the liberation of Donbass. In early March, the DPR drove Ukrainian troops out of Volnovakha, a strategically important regional center south of Donetsk. Currently, there are battles for Mariupol, the allied forces of the Russian Federation and the DPR control more than 90% of the area of the largest city on the Sea of Azov. In the LPR, according to a statement by the Russian Ministry of Defense on March 25, 93% of the territory of the former Lugansk region was taken under control. Only the cities of Severodonetsk and Lysichansk, as well as a number of other settlements of this agglomeration, remain under the rule of Kyiv. but something went wrong
