Emmanuel Macron denounced Friday, April 8 in a tweet the attack “abominablewhich claimed the lives of dozens of people at the Kramatorsk station in eastern Ukraine, which Moscow has denied being the author.
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“Ukrainian civilians are fleeing to escape the worst. Their weapons? Strollers, stuffed animals, luggage. This morning, at Kramatorsk station, the families who were about to leave experienced horror. Dozens dead, hundreds injured. Abominable“, reacted the French president. At least 50 people, including five children, were killed Friday in the missile attack on Kramatorsk station from where civilian evacuations were taking place, according to the governor of the region. This strike, which Moscow has denied being the author, comes when international indignation is already strong at the images of atrocities of which the Russian army is accused in localities from which it has withdrawn around kyiv.
“We think of the victims of Kramatorsk, Boutcha, Mariupol, Kharkiv: everywhere in Ukraine, we will support the investigations so that justice is done. We are thinking of the families who continue to flee, we will welcome them into our Union, our Union of Peace“, added Emmanuel Macron. “As Europeans, we are taking new sanctions. And we continue to support Ukraine humanitarianally, militarily and financially.He added, as European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and EU Foreign Minister Josep Borrell were expected in kyiv. Emmanuel Macron regretted, in an interview with Le Parisien, the “explicit refusalby Vladimir Putin of the humanitarian operation proposed by France, Turkey and Greece in Mariupol.
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