Three Red Cross workers are killed in eastern Ukraine by Russian bombardment

Three Ukrainian employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) were murdered and two others were injured by Russian shelling on Thursday in a village in the front-line Donetsk region, according to Ukrainian officials.

An further war crime from Russia. The International Committee of the Red Cross’s humanitarian mission in the Donetsk region was attacked by the occupiers today, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on X.

Regional governor Vadym Filashkin reported casualties on the Telegram message app after the village of Viroliubivka was shelled.

“I strongly denounce acts of violence against Red Cross workers. The ICRC President, Mirjana Spoljaric, stated in a statement, “It’s unconscionable that shelling would hit an aid distribution site.”

The statement also mentioned the regular presence of ICRC staff and their red cross-emblazoned trucks in the Donetsk region.

Prior to winter, ICRC staff had given residents fuel briquettes for warmth, according to a Telegram post from the prosecutor general’s office. It stated that at the time of the attack, they were unloading the aid.

Prosecutors said that two workers were admitted to the hospital, one of whom was critically ill.

Russia frequently launches airstrikes and shells into the Donetsk region, which is partially occupied by Russian forces.

Thousands of people have died as a result of Moscow’s attacks on Ukraine, but it denies that it was targeting civilians or civilian infrastructure.