INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Colombia's President Gustavo Petro said Wednesday that his country would send a note of diplomatic protest to Russia after three Colombians
were injured in a missile strike that killed 12 in Ukraine.Petro said on Twitter that "Russia has attacked three defenseless Colombian
In so doing, it violated the protocols of war."He added that Columbia's foreign ministry will deliver a note of diplomatic protest to
Moscow.Three children were among the dead and at least 60 people were injured in Tuesday's rocket strike on the Ria Pizza restaurant in the
town of Kramatorsk.The three injured Colombians are decorated writer Hector Abad Faciolince, former Colombian peace negotiator Sergio
Jaramillo and journalist Catalina Gomez.Abad and Jaramillo were in Kramatorsk on a mission to express Latin American solidarity with the
people of Ukraine amid Russia's war.On social media, they said they had been with prominent Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina, who was
critically injured in the strike.Petro had previously opposed sending weapons to support Ukraine against Russia's aggression and has spoken
in favor of a negotiated solution.After meeting U.S
President Joe Biden in Washington in April, the two leaders in a statement "condemned all forms of authoritarianism and aggression in the
world, including Russia's violation of Ukraine's territorial integrity contrary to international law, while reiterating the urgent call for
a stable and lasting peace."
