🔥 Destruction

Three International Committee of the Red Cross aid workers were killed by Russian shelling in Donetsk region.

September 12, 2024 Viroliubivka, Donetsk Oblast

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Kyiv Post Kyiv Independent Ukrinform

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International Committee of the Red Cross (organization) Russian forces (military_unit) Chasiv Yar (location) Pokrovsk (location) Russia (organization) ICRC (organization) Russian Armed Forces (organization) Lancaster loitering munition (weapon_system) 1065th Artillery Regiment of the 98th Airborne Division (military_unit) 200th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade (military_unit)

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Kyiv Post → Source tone: certain

Three aid workers were killed by shelling in eastern Ukraine. ICRC vehicles were hit in the Donetsk region.

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: certain

Earlier that month, on Sept. 12, 2024, a Russian strike on the village of Viroliubivka in Donetsk Oblast destroyed a white truck with a Red Cross logo carrying humanitarian aid, killing three employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross mission and injuring two others.

Ukrinform → Source tone: certain

Russian artillery shelling of Donetsk region killed three ICRC employees and wounded two more

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