Russian missile hits printing plant of German “Katapult” magazine in Kharkiv

A Russian missile attack on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Thursday killed the printing house “Faktor Druk”, where the geopolitical magazine “KatapultU” is printed. This was reported by “Katapult” publisher Benjamin Fredrich in a statement published on the company’s website on Thursday.

“People who printed our geopolitical magazine ‘KatapultU’ were today carried dead or seriously injured from their production halls“, Fredrich continues. More details about the incident will be announced “in the coming days”.

Videos from the burning printing hall show fire-fighting efforts

The statement on the “Katapult” website included links to YouTube videos and images that the publisher claims “with major trigger warning.” They are said to have been “created on site shortly after the attack”.

The footage, which contains sensitive content, shows Ukrainian rescue workers carrying lifeless people out of a burning hall. While injured people are being cared for outside the building, firefighters inside the building are extinguishing smoldering stacks of paper and magazines amid heavy smoke.

In another linked video, which was published on Thursday via Telegram by the user “Libkos Stories” and is credited with the source “Kirill Amursky”, a black body bag can be seen from which the sounds of a ringing cell phone can be heard. The description under the video states: “Today another terrible attack on transport infrastructure and a printing works. There are injuries and deaths. The video shows a ringing phone that is never answered.”

Rocket attack on Kharkiv: Apparently five women among the victims

On Thursday, the “Katapult” magazine published a post on Instagram reporting seven deaths: “The seven deaths reported in the media apparently have all worked in the printing shopas we have just learned,” the statement said.

According to a Telegram post by user “Libkos Stories” linked on the “Katapult” website, the victims include five women, one man and one as yet unidentified person condition.

According to another linked Telegram post, they are currently trying to identify three of the people killed through DNA testing. Two other people have already been identified based on their clothing, it continues.

Selenskyj condemns “extremely brutal attack” on Kharkiv

During the Russian air strikes on Kharkiv, more than a dozen projectiles Meanwhile, Governor Oleh Synegubov said that the missiles had been fired. “The Russian army has carried out at least 15 strikes,” he said. The regional military administrator also confirmed at least seven fatalities, 16 people were injured in the attack.

The Russian terrorists want to burn and destroy all aspects of life.

Volodymyr Selenskyj

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Selenskyj has also commented on the rocket attacks on Kharkiv. On Thursday, he condemned the attacks on the online portal “X”. “extremely brutal attack”.

“Yesterday’s attack by Russia on the Kharkiv region, in which people were killed and injured, a Publishing facilities destroyed and 50,000 printed products burned“This shows once again that Russia is at war with humanity and all aspects of normal life,” Zelensky wrote in another X-post on Friday.

The Russian terrorists used the Lack of adequate air defense in Ukraine said the Ukrainian president. In addition, reliable weapons are needed to hit the positions on Russian territory near the Ukrainian border.

According to the Ukrainian Publishers Association, a Russian air raid on the city of Kharkiv completely destroyed one of the country’s largest printing plants.

German Publishers and Booksellers Association “dismayed and appalled”

While many media continue to report 16 injured, the German Publishers and Booksellers Association announced on Friday, citing the publishers, that in the Factor printing works on Thursday more than 20 people seriously injured The Börsenverein also reported seven fatalities.

The attack on the Factor printing house hits the heart of the Ukrainian book industry.

Peter Kraus from CleffGerman Publishers and Booksellers Association

In the production facility, the Vivat-Verlag, which belongs to the same group and many other Ukrainian publishers. They are currently producing books for direct sale at the Arsenal Book Festival in Kyiv, which begins on May 30.

“The attack on the Factor printing works hits the heart of the Ukrainian book industry. We are dismayed and appalled,” said Peter Kraus vom Cleff, CEO of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association. Targeted attacks on the Ukrainian book industry are a “perfidious part of Russian hybrid warfare.” The German Publishers and Booksellers Association continues to support its Ukrainian colleagues.

“Katapult” publisher announces donations for printing press

Because the recent events surrounding the rocket attack on the printing plant in Kharkiv were, according to the publisher of “Katapult”, “hard to bear”, Fredrich announced further assistance in his statement.

In the future, the entrepreneur wants to do more to ensure that the survivors can “move on.” “Not to print our magazine, but in order not to give up and to have a perspective“, Fredrich continues.

He himself wants to donate “1000 euros for the printing company”. Furthermore, he wants to “voluntarily pay 50 percent more for the printing of our two upcoming ‘KatapultU’ issues”. In the statement, Fredrich also called on the readers of his magazine to donate (link to website). “The Printing people should use the money as they see fit – for reconstruction or for the injured and the bereaved,” said the “Katapult” publisher. (with agencies)