Kherson Governor Vladimir Saldo reported today that the death toll from the New Year’s Eve attack on a café and hotel in the village of Khorly has risen to 28. “Three people died in the hospital today so the number of those killed now stands at 28. More than 100 people were in the cafe at the time of the attack, and over 60 were affected,” he said, reported TASS.
Russia has condemned the Western media silence on the attack as a sign of “complicity” in Kiev’s “bloody crimes.”
“We resolutely condemn this outrageous act of barbarity by Zelensky and his clique, who have long since transformed into bloodthirsty monsters,” Gennady Gatilov, Russia’s ambassador to the UN in Geneva, said in a statement, reported RT. “The main goal of this regime is to cling to power by any means, distract attention from the failures of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and disrupt any attempts to find a peaceful resolution to the conflict,” he added.
Gatilov demanded that UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk and the relevant UN agencies publicly condemn the attack “without delay.” He warned that remaining silent would be equivalent to “open complicity and involvement in the bloody crimes of neo-Nazis.”
