A journalist from South America, Catalina Gómez, was injured in the Russian shelling attack on Kramatorsk (Donetsk oblast) on June 27.
As BBC Ukraine reports, citing Aguanta Ucraina (Hold on Ukraine – a Ukraine support group in South America), three Colombian citizens were wounded by the shelling in downtown Kramatorsk: the founder of the organization, Colombian MP Sergio Jaramillo, writer Héctor Abad Faciolince and journalist Catalina Gómez. They have minor injuries.
They were accompanied by a Ukrainian writer, who has been severely wounded.
It will be recalled that Russian troops launched a missile strike on Kramatorsk in the evening of June 27. One “Iskander” missile hit a pizzeria in the city center, where patrons, including journalists, were dining, and another one hit Bilenke village. According to the State Emergency Service, as of 10:00 a.m. on June 28, the bodies of 9 dead people (including 3 children) were recovere from the rubble, and 56 people were injured (including 1 child, born in 2022).