Two staff members, probably French, of the Swiss Church Aid organisation HEKS were killed in Ukraine on Thursday. Other members of the aid organisation were injured, the NGO said in a statement. HEKS condemns this "brutal and unjustifiable attack".
The aid team was attacked at around 2:30pm on Thursday during an operation in the southeast region of the country. “An attack targeted HEKS/EPER employees during a field assessment, resulting in the tragic loss of two dear colleagues and injuries to others”, HEKS said in a statement on Friday, expressing its sympathy with the families.
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The Swiss foreign ministry is aware of these events. According to the information in its possession, there are no Swiss nationals among the victims, it told the Keystone-ATS agency.
French President Emmanuel Macron announced on X (formally twitter) that two French aid workers had been killed in Ukraine by a Russian strike. When questioned by Keystone-ATS, the HEKS spokesman said that the initial results of the investigation indicated that the two victims were French.
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