OSCE to hold emergency session due to Russia's strike on Kryvyi Rih
Photo: Russia struck a children's playground in Kryvyi Rih (t.me/dnipropetrovskaODA)
Ukraine has initiated an emergency meeting of the OSCE following Russia's strike on Kryvyi Rih, which killed 20 civilians, according to Ukraine’s representative to the OSCE and other international organizations in Vienna, Yurii Vitrenko, on Facebook.
According to him, an extraordinary special session of the OSCE Permanent Council will be convened tomorrow, April 8, to discuss the Russian terrorist attack against children and adults in Kryvyi Rih, as well as the escalation of Russian terror against civilians across Ukraine.
"The ground will burn beneath the feet of the Moscow delegation," Vitrenko noted.
The OSCE Permanent Council is the main decision-making body between the annual meetings of the Ministerial Council. It includes the permanent representatives of all 57 participating States of the Organization.
An extraordinary special session is convened to promptly address crisis situations or particularly significant issues within the Organization.
Strike on Kryvyi Rih
On April 5, the Russian army launched a ballistic missile at a residential neighborhood in Kryvyi Rih. The missile detonated in the air near a children's playground. It was equipped with a cluster warhead, which led to a high number of casualties.
As of now, it is known that nine children were killed as a result of the Russian strike.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, stated that this attack marks the deadliest killing of children since the beginning of the full-scale war.
