Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has denounced the missile strike on an eastern train station as another Russian war crime. “Like the massacres in Bucha, like many other Russian war crimes, the missile attack on Kramatorsk should be one of the charges at the tribunal that must be held,” he said during his nightly video address to the nation.
The president told Ukrainians that great efforts would be taken “to establish every minute of who did what, who gave what orders, where the missile came from, who transported it, who gave the command and how this strike was agreed”, so that those behind the attack would be held responsible. Mr Zelensky thanked the European Union for its commitment to help investigate Russian war crimes.
He said he spoke with EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and urged the EU to impose a full embargo on Russian oil and gas. “It is energy exports that provide the lion’s share of Russia’s income and allow the Russian leadership to believe in their impunity,” Mr Zelensky said. “That allows them to hope that the world will ignore the war crimes committed by the Russian army.”
