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What happened in Kramatorsk on 27 June 2023?
Summary
A retrospective on the Russian missile strike on a restaurant in Donetsk Oblast and an Australian aid pledge announced a day earlier.
What happened in Kramatorsk on 27 June 2023? A Russian missile struck a restaurant in the city in Donetsk Oblast, killing 13 civilians and injuring 61 others, according to reports at the time.
Later accounts gave further detail. The strike hit the RIA café in the city centre at 19:29 on Tuesday, 27 June 2023. Four of those killed were children. A later count put the number of wounded at 59, a figure that differs from the 61 reported at the time. A second missile landed in the private-housing area of the Bilenke district, wounding five residents.
The victims were people in a civilian venue, and the attack is classed among attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Aid announced a day earlier
On 26 June 2023, the day before the strike, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced a military aid package for Ukraine worth AU$110 million. The two events were separate, but they reflected the two sides of the war's daily reality in that period: continued international support for Kyiv and continued strikes on populated areas.
The Kramatorsk attack stood out for its toll on a place where people had gathered in the evening. Thirteen dead, including four children, made it one of the notable civilian-casualty incidents of that summer day in the Donetsk region.
