Russian attack on Konstantinovka: search and rescue operation completed, number of dead named

In Konstantinovka (Donetsk region), which suffered from shelling, a search and rescue operation was completed.

This was announced by the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Igor Klymenko.

He fired on the army of the Russian Federation in the central market in the town of Kostyantinivka, Donetsk region, on April 6, taking the lives of 17 civilians, 32 others were wounded. Ryatuvalnuyu operation completed.

This was announced by the Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko following the completion of the search and rescue operation.

“The search and rescue operation in Kostyantynivka has been completed. As of 18:00, as a result of Russian shelling, 17 people died and 32 were injured,” Klymenko wrote.

On September 6, the Russians hit the peaceful quarters of Kostyantynivka with a rocket. Debris clearance continued until the evening.

On September 6, on the anniversary of the liberation of Konstantinovka from the Nazis, the Russians shelled the Ukrainian city. Russian gunners struck at the usual market, where there were ordinary shops, a pharmacy and innocent people.

Soon, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held a press conference after talks with Danish Prime Minister Matte Frederiksen, at which he stated that the Russian Armed Forces deliberately attacked Konstantinovka. According to him, they struck at a place where there are no military units at all.

The Office of the Prosecutor General said that there was a child among the dead. The State Emergency Service said that one rescuer was also among the injured.

As a result of the shelling, a fire started in the market, which has already been eliminated. Approximately 30 trade pavilions were damaged.

The reaction of Russian propagandists turned out to be typical – they began to blame Ukraine for the attack in a vile and cynical way. According to them, the Ukrainian air defense allegedly worked, and the missile flew along an unpredictable trajectory or shot down something in the sky right on the market.

According to the Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security, Putinists Vladimir Solovyov and Vladislav Pozdnyakov are spreading this narrative.

Currently, more than 10,000 Mariupol civilians have been arrested during various filtering measures in the temporarily Russian-occupied city of Mariupol, Donetsk region. Every week, 50 to 100 Mariupol residents continue to disappear in Russian torture chambers after arrests and various purges. This was announced on September 6 by Petro Andryushchenko, adviser to the Mariupol city chairman.

“As a result, it is worth understanding that this cannot happen irresponsibly and the Mariupol reaction, in particular, is this – a reaction of retaliation and a reaction of struggle. Because, unfortunately, we do not see any other way, except a military one, for the return and de-occupation of Mariupol, at least on the horizon,” he said.

According to the mayor’s adviser, it is almost impossible for relatives of those who disappear in Mariupol’s torture camps and become victims of the occupying “authorities” to find them.

“Because if we talk about relatives who are directly in the occupied territory, everyone perfectly understands the sad truth that if you start actively looking for people who disappeared after arrest, after filtering, then you actually become next. How to find them in another way is a question that, unfortunately, remains unanswered for us. Because if there is at least some kind of system and lists regarding Ukrainian prisoners of war, it happens that, in principle, no one knows even an approximate list and the exact number of people who were arrested. At what stage, where can they be,” Andryushchenko says.

He clarified that it is only known that a year ago these people were, in particular, in the territory of Olenivka, in Donetsk and Makiivka in various former colonies.

“But after the more or less active process of exchanging prisoners of war began, they stopped being kept together with prisoners of war and are not kept, according to our information, in the territory of the occupied part of Donetsk region. They are kept somewhere on the territory of the Russian Federation, but this, accordingly, makes it difficult to search and find the ends – from which you have to push yourself to start looking for them. Unfortunately, most likely, only after the victory and de-occupation, the defeat of Russia, we will be able to find and return home all our citizens,” Petro Andryushchenko summarized.

The Russian Federation holds about 25,000 Ukrainian civilian prisoners. Ukraine managed to return 144 people since the beginning of the coordination headquarters. Dmytro Lubinets, the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, said this. He clarified that the process of rescuing illegally detained civilians is complicated by the fact that their status is not determined by international humanitarian law.