Two humanitarian aid workers killed and two people injured in Russian drone attack in Donetsk

Two people have died and two others have been injured after a Russian attack with a FVP drone against a humanitarian aid vehicle in the Ukrainian region of Donetsk last Friday.

The NGO East SOS has reported, through a publication on Instagram, that minutes before the offensive, the four members were carrying out the evacuation of civilians from Druzhkivka and Oleksievo-Druzhkiva, in the Kramatorsk district. They also aimed to pick up a wounded Kostyantynivika, but they did not arrive in time.

Upon seeing what was happening, the occupants had shot at the roof of the transport, right in the compartment where the evacuated people were.

Inside the vehicle, there were three elderly women and a 66-year-old man.

One of the women died instantly and another died later from her injuries. Instead, the 66-year-old man and the other woman, 65, suffered injuries from explosives and shrapnel to the head and torso. The driver of the evacuation team suffered an injury due to the blast wave.

The NGO reports that the mission’s unarmored vehicle had a clear inscription that said “Humanitarian Mission”, “but the enemy deliberately chose it as a target, seriously violating the norms of international humanitarian law.”

“Humanitarian funds risk their lives every day to save civilians. They must have armored transport and protection systems against enemy drones,” said Yevheniia Tkachuk, evacuation coordinator for East SOS.

Richard Ragan, United Nations coordinator in Ukraine, said in a statement that this incident “reflects the unacceptable risks and threats posed by the increasing and illegal use of first-person vision drones by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation against civilians and humanitarian workers operating near the front lines.”

“International humanitarian law protects civilians and civilian objects, including humanitarian personnel and their vehicles. Civilians are not a target. Humanitarian workers are not a target,” Ragan said.

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