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For those who've supported World Central Kitchen, sad news.
Missile hits World Central Kitchen partner restaurant in Kharkiv, wounding four staffers, WCK CEO says
From CNN’s Pierre Meilhan
A restaurant partnered with celebrity chef and global humanitarian José Andrés' organization, World Central Kitchen, was hit by a missile in Kharkiv, Ukraine, wounding four staffers, WCK CEO Nate Mook said Saturday.
He described the scene as one of “horrific brutality.”
In a video posted on Twitter, Mook stood in front of the building that took what he said was a “big hit” from a missile that left “tremendous amounts of damage” and “a dozen cars burnt out.” The kitchen also suffered damage, according to Mook, who said no one was killed at the restaurant but that one person was killed in the strike.
CNN has not independently confirmed the death.
“This is a tremendous amount of carnage left behind for no reason,” Mook said, adding that “coming to work, cooking for people that are hungry is an immense act of bravery."
The WCK CEO said a fire was burning at the site, which he also visited before the attack, on Friday, to pick up meals with the WCK team. He described the area as residential with offices.
Mook said he was heading to a hospital to check on the restaurant staff, whom he was told were “OK.”
Following the Russian invasion in Ukraine, Andrés provided meals along the country's western border through World Central Kitchen. He said WCK started making food in Ukraine hours after the fighting started and that they're serving 250,000 meals each day.
In 2021, Andrés was a recipient of Jeff Bezos’ Courage and Civility Award, an honor which came with $100 million.
Andrés has earmarked some of those funds for Ukraine.
There's either a Facebook or Twitter article embedded in the article, but I wasn't able to copy it.
It appears the strategy is inflicting maximum pain on the populous rather than hard military targets. Generally the act of those cornered.