{"id":56749,"date":"2024-08-09T17:58:03","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T15:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=56749"},"modified":"2025-08-09T23:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T21:19:09","slug":"new-russian-terrorist-attack-causes-massacre-of-civilians-in-kostiantynivka-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/08\/09\/new-russian-terrorist-attack-causes-massacre-of-civilians-in-kostiantynivka-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"New Russian terrorist attack causes massacre of civilians in Kostiantynivka, Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia always acts like this when its military operations go wrong in the invasion of Ukraine: it tries to spread terror among civilians.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/07\/08\/russia-attacks-a-childrens-hospital-in-ukraine-how-many-protests-will-there-be-against-this\/\">Russia attacks a children's hospital in Ukraine: how many protests will there be against this?<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/07\/08\/the-powerful-cruise-missile-used-by-russia-to-attack-a-childrens-hospital-in-ukraine\/\">The powerful cruise missile used by Russia to attack a children's hospital in Ukraine<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>The terrorist attack was directed against the Ukrainian town of Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk region today. <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/russian-attack-against-kostiantynivka\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Kyiv Independent<\/a> reports that <strong>Russia fired a Kh-38 air-to-surface missile at the Ekomarket supermarket<\/strong>. The attack occurred this morning, when many people were shopping. In this attack, <strong>the Russians have killed 14 civilians and injured 43<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53912648090_d275c41d14_o.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As a result of the attack, <strong>the supermarket was burned and destroyed<\/strong>. It is a civilian target with no military value, so <strong>this attack is another clear example of a Russian war crime<\/strong>, according to the 1949 Geneva Conventions.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53912453053_1a35fa274e_o.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Kh-38 is a missile launched from aircraft such as the Sukhoi Su-34.<\/strong> It has satellite-guided, infrared-guided and laser-guided versions. So it can be deduced that <strong>the pilot who launched it knew well that he was attacking a civilian target.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53912207226_98c00ed5bf_o.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In addition to the supermarket attack, <strong>four houses, nine shops, a car wash and 12 cars were also hit by the Russian strike.<\/strong> The head of the Ukrainian Presidential Office, Andriy Yermak, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/ermaka2022\/5127\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> this morning: <em>\"The attack on the supermarket in Kostiantynivka <strong>is another example of Russian terrorism. All they can do is attack civilians<\/strong>.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53912648085_da3f95a038_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZelenskyyUa\/status\/1821853417276375403\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a> commented on the attack, saying: <em>\"<strong>Russia will be held accountable for this terror<\/strong>, and we will do our best to ensure that the world continues to stand with Ukraine in supporting our defense and saving the lives of our people.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53912452998_62109e15d5_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of this invasion, <strong>Russia has been launching indiscriminate attacks against civilian targets<\/strong>, attacking residential buildings, supermarkets, schools, religious centers, hospitals, kindergartens and other targets without any military value. <strong>Attacking these targets is a war crime.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53912557069_1915ab12cc_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Of course, once again, <strong>I strongly condemn this attack and convey my full support to the people of Ukraine.<\/strong> This war was started by Russia in a criminal attempt to militarily occupy a free and independent country, as a result of Vladimir Putin's imperialist folly. <strong>Russia must be defeated and the West must help Ukraine defend itself.<\/strong> Only then can peace be restored in that part of Europe.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53912666925_0ef68750f1_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photos: \u0412\u0430\u0434\u0438\u043c \u0424\u0456\u043b\u0430\u0448\u043a\u0456\u043d \/ \u041d\u043e\u0432\u0430 \u043f\u043e\u0448\u0442\u0430 \/ \u041d\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438 \u0414\u043e\u043d\u0431\u0430\u0441\u0441\u0430.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia always acts like this when its military operations go wrong in the invasion of Ukraine: it tries to spread terror among civilians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10373],"tags":[22403,22404,10731,16153,15307,7887,16074],"class_list":["post-56749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-world","tag-kh-38","tag-kostiantynivka","tag-russia","tag-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-of-2022","tag-ukraine","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-volodimir-zelenski"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}