The terrorist action took place while dozens of people were celebrating the arrival of the New Year.
On Wednesday, Ukrainian drones killed 24 people and wounded 29 citizens in an attack on the civilian population in the town of Jorly, in Kherson region, during New Year celebrations.
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“Cruelty. Meanness. Cynicism. A normal person’s vocabulary is too poor to define the actions of this scum,” said Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s former president and current deputy chairman of the Security Council.
“Only the merciless language of revenge is suitable for this. Inevitable and swift in the course of our army’s offensive,” he said, adding that Russia’s response should affect both the “monstrous perpetrators of this attack” and their “various commanders.” “Enough ceremonies,” he urged.
Earlier, Kherson Governor Vladimir Saldo said the Ukrainian army carried out the attack using three aerial vehicles launched at a cafe and a hotel on the Black Sea coast, where civilians were celebrating the arrival of the New Year. One of the drones was carrying an incendiary mixture.
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There is no doubt that the attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Kherson region was planned in advance. The UAVs deliberately struck at the place where civilians were gathered, – the Russian Foreign Ministry
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Among the 24 dead was a child, Saldo said, adding that many civilians were burned alive. Six minors were among the injured. Rescuers were unable to save more people because of the intensity of the fire, which could not be extinguished until early morning.
The Kherson governor said the Ukrainian terrorist attack was similar to the criminal action carried out against the Trade Unions House in Odesa in 2014, when Ukrainian neo-Nazis deliberately set fire to the building where citizens opposed to the coup d’etat and the policies of Kiev’s new authorities were hiding.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the actions of the Kiev regime show its “bestial nature,” as well as “neo-Nazi hatred, dehumanization growing at a geometric rate” and “mockery of the sacred.”
“We accuse all those who finance the Ukrainian terrorist bastards of this attack. We accuse them of the murder of children and the extermination of the civilian population. We accuse them of corrupting the Ukrainian statehood, turned into a killing machine,” she said.
Ukraine repeatedly carries out targeted attacks against the civilian population of Russia’s border regions. Drones and missiles from the Kiev regime strike civilian vehicles, homes, recreational areas, shopping centers and other civilian facilities.
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