Ukrainian cries the death of 18 people, including nine children, following yesterday’s Russian missile attack on Kryvyi Rig, the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The attack, one of the most lethal of the last few weeks, has hit a residential area of the industrial city, near a children’s playground. The photos released by the Ukrainian emergency services show the bodies of different people, including one lying in front of a swing. The videos published on social media, which was not possible to verify, show corpses on the street and a column of smoke that rises towards the sky. Other images show a car in flames and people screaming.
“This is the type of suffering that you would not wish for your worst enemy,” wrote Sergei Lysak, head of the administration of the Dnipropetrovsk region, on Telegram, adding that the attack has wounded 61 people, including 12 children.
Another Russian raid with drones cost the life of a 56 -year -old woman and the injury of seven people. The firefighters turned off several fires and five buildings were damaged by the bombings, said the interior minister Igor Klymenko.
The Russian Ministry of Defense, for his part, confirmed that he had “carried out a precision attack with a high explosive potential missile against a restaurant” in the city “where the commanders and instructors of western formations were meeting” while the Russian air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 49 drones launched by Ukraine.
According to Zelensky, the attack on Kryvyi Rig shows that Moscow “does not want a fire”. “We see it and the whole world sees it,” he said. «Every missile attack and with Drone shows that Russia only wants war. And only the international pressure on Russia and every possible effort to strengthen Ukraine, our aerial defenses and our armed forces will determine the end of the war. The missile hit an area near residential buildings, a playground and normal roads. Those who can do these things are not human and are bastards ».
Located about 80 kilometers from the front line, Kryvyi Rig was a regular target of air attacks since the beginning of the Russian invasion in February 2022. Before the war, about 600,000 people lived there. Andriy Kovalenko, Ukrainian official in charge of fighting disinformation, described the Russian missile used on Friday as an “Iskander” with a range of up to 500 kilometers. “It is a deliberated attack, aimed at killing a large number of people,” he said.
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