Seven Fatalities in Russian Missile Strike Near Journalists’ Hotel: The ‘Double Tap’ Impact

The name of a lady gravely injured in a “double tap” missile strike that killed seven people in the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk remains unknown, according to the chief of the regional hospital.

Serhiy Ryzhenko, head of the Mechnikov hospital in Dnipro, 115 miles (185 kilometers) west of the affected city, said his surgeons began treating the injured at 3 a.m. on Tuesday, but the lives of four of the five most serious patients were still in doubt.

Two of the five were described as citizens, one as a police officer, and two as first responders.
The Iskander missiles that targeted Pokrovsk were launched 40 minutes apart, resulting in death and injury among individuals who hurried to the site following the first strike, near a hotel used by journalists.

“We started receiving wounded from Pokrovsk at 3 a.m.,” Ryzhenko, whose facility handles the most acute trauma cases, added. We had to rush them to the operation room since their injuries were so severe. It truly came down to life and death. One of the males had missile fragments that had penetrated his skull deeply. For several hours, our neurosurgeons did everything they could to save this man.

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“Four of these five individuals are critically ill.” They are in the polytrauma section of the intensive care unit. They are dealing with shards that have struck various regions of their bodies. 

There is a woman in critical condition who has already received two litres of blood. We do not yet know her given name or surname. Her condition is critical.”

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, claimed after the attack early Monday evening that Moscow had targeted a “ordinary residential building.” Showing video of a typical Soviet-era five-storey structure that had had its top story demolished.

A nearby hotel and a restaurant frequented by correspondents were also destroyed, however it is believed that few journalists were present at the time due to growing fears of a strike in the city, which is close to the frontline.

Ihor Klymenko, the interior minister, stated seven people were killed: five civilians, a rescuer, and a military.

It is the second time in recent weeks that Russian strikes on Ukrainian cities have targeted journalistic institutions. Victoria Amelina, an award-winning writer, was killed when a pizza restaurant in the eastern city of Kramatorsk was bombed in June.

According to Ukrainian officials, two Iskander missiles struck Pokrovsk at 7.15 p.m. and 7.52 p.m. on Monday, causing damage to 12 multi-story structures. 81 persons were injured, including 39 citizens, 31 police officers, seven rescuers, and four military personnel.

“We are resuming rubble demolition,” said Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk region’s military administration, on Tuesday morning, after rescuers “were forced to suspend work for the night due to the high threat of repeated shelling.”

Pokrovsk is located 43 miles north-west of the Russian-held city of Donetsk and 30 miles from the frontline, and has served as a base for various media organizations reporting developments on the neighboring frontlines.

The Druzhba hotel and the Corleone pizza, both of which were damaged during the strikes, were popular with journalists, according to BBC, Financial Times, Globe and Mail, and Channel 4 News correspondents.

“In May, we stayed at this hotel to report on the thousands of people returning to their homes near the frontlines. Five individuals were murdered and 31 were injured. “The dangers are real and long-lasting,” James Waterhouse, the BBC’s Ukraine correspondent, tweeted after the incident.

According to the Financial Times’ Christopher Miller,” Russian forces launched a bullet attack on central Pokrovsk megacity and Druzhba hostel and Corleone pizzeria, both of which were visited by intelligencers, in a Kramatorsk- style attack.”
Maria Avdeeva, a security specialist who has proved Russian war crimes, twittered,” Pizza place Corleone in Pokrovsk, a frequent spot for levies and foreign intelligencers, appears to be a target, much like Rio pizza in Kramatorsk.”

Meanwhile, Ukraine’s secret service, the SBU, claimed to have blocked Russian hacking of its service’s battle information system.

According to Reuters, the SBU announced via the Telegram messaging app that it had “exposed and blocked the illegal conduct of Russian hackers who tried to penetrate Ukrainian military networks and organize intelligence gathering.”

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According to the SBU, hackers tried to get access to” sensitive information on the conduct of the Ukrainian fortified forces, their position and movement, and their specialized support.”

latterly that day, the SBU blazoned that it had revealed a asset network of four original women in Pokrovsk that was reportedly furnishing Russia and the Wagner group with intelligence about the number of Ukrainian forces in the Donetsk region and military aircraft flight paths.

“The enemy group was unique in that it was entirely composed of local women who supported the Russian Federation’s armed aggression against Ukraine,” the SBU stated on Telegram.

Three women had been imprisoned, and a fourth was thought to have fled Ukraine shortly after the invasion began to coordinate intelligence gathering. It comes after reports on Monday that there was a conspiracy to murder Zelenskiy through air assault during his visit to Mykolaiv.