As the Russian-Ukraine war continues, Russia has been accused of targeting rescue workers after strikes in Pokrovsk, Ukraine killed 7 and injured 80.
Ukrainian officials on Tuesday accused the Kremlin's forces of targeting rescue workers by hitting residential buildings with two consecutive missiles - the first one to draw crews to the scene and the second one to wound or kill them.
"All of were there because they were needed, putting their efforts into rescuing people after the first strike," Ivan Vyhivskyi, chief of Ukraine's National Police, said Tuesday. "They knew that under the rubble were the injured - they needed to react, to dig, to retrieve, to save. And the enemy deliberately struck the second time."
"Today is not my happy day because Russian criminals committed another awful crime in Pokrovsk," he said in a video he sent to The Associated Press from a hospital ward. Nikulin had already witnessed some of the war's horrors. He helped an AP team escape after Russian troops that besieged Mariupol entered the downtown area and searched for them.
Ukrainian officials say rescuers are protected by international conventions as they are providing humanitarian assistance and are not engaged in combat operations.
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