Bogotá (EFE).- The Colombian writer Héctor Abad, the former Peace Commissioner Sergio Jaramillo and the Colombian journalist Catalina Gómez escaped unharmed from a Russian attack with a cruise missile at the restaurant where they were dining in the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk and in which Seriously injured a Ukrainian writer.
This was confirmed by Abad and Jaramillo in a statement, in which they stated that “they are fine and only suffered minor injuries.” But the Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina, who was with them, is “in critical condition due to a head injury.”
The attack occurred in Kramatorsk, in the eastern Donetsk region, one of the most troubled of the war. And left at least three dead and 42 injured, according to the Ukrinform news agency. Among the dead is a 17-year-old girl and among the injured an eight-month-old baby.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed his condolences to the victims of the Russian attack.
“Today Russian terrorists also brutally shelled Kramatorsk. S-300 missiles. Three people died, including a child. My condolences to family and friends ”, he said in his usual night speech.
Attack on a restaurant in Ukraine
“Tonight, while we were having dinner at the RAI pizzeria restaurant in Kramatorsk with Victoria Amelina, an extraordinary Ukrainian writer, and the great journalist Catalina Gómez, we were the object of a Russian attack with a cruise missile launched against the restaurant,” they said. Abad and Jaramillo in a joint statement.
This restaurant is a “regular meeting place for international correspondents and society” in a city where they had come to “collect material” from Donbas for the “Hold Ukraine!” movement, which seeks to “express the solidarity of America Latina with the people of Ukraine against the barbaric and illegal Russian invasion.
Photos of both Abad and Jaramillo circulated on social networks after the attack in which they are seen unharmed but affected by the impacts left by the explosion.
Abad arrived in Ukraine to participate, together with Jaramillo, in the kyiv Book Fair, which was held from June 22 to 25. After his assistance last Saturday, Abad undertook a trip to the front lines.
“The closer you get to the front,” he describes, “the destruction is more evident, the demolished buildings, the bridges, the stories of the people, everything is more painful,” he told EFE this Tuesday in telephone statements, in which he assured that He came to Ukraine to “in order to tell the truth, you have to defend freedom.”