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Missile-hit restaurant was ‘a popular meeting place for civilians’

Newsday

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Russia's missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk is now known to have killed eight people and injured more than fifty. Officials say a restaurant, shopping centre and apartment buildings were at the epicentre of the explosions. Arnaud De Decker is a freelance journalist who was in the restaurant just 10 minutes before the strike. He told Newsday that the eatery was a popular meeting place for “soldiers taking a break from the frontlines (and) also civilians and volunteers and journalists�. He said the aftermath “was horrible, wounded people everywhere, people screaming under the rubble�. (Picture: Shows wounded civilians walking out in shock from the Ria restaurant after a Russian missile attack in Kramatorsk, Ukraine on June 27, 2023. Credit: Narciso Contreras /Anadolu Agency via Getty Images.)

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