A 2-year-old girl was recovered dead and 22 people, including five children, were injured after a Russian missile hit the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Saturday, the local governor said on Sunday.
“At night, the body of a girl who was only 2 years old was removed from under the ruins of the house,” Sergey Lisak said in Telegram.
He added that seventeen people are in the hospital after Russian forces fired on Iskander short-range cruise missiles. According to Mr. Lisak, the rockets fell between two apartment buildings in the Pidorodnensky district, partially destroying them and causing material damage to several houses, cars and infrastructure.
Mykola Lukashuk, head of the regional council of the Dnepropetrovsk region, noted that 17 children have been killed there since the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“There are no words to console the parents who have lost the most precious thing in their lives,” Lukashuk said.
“Terror State”
“Russia is once again proving that it is a terrorist state,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky complained Sunday morning.
Photos posted on social media show rescue teams searching the ruins of the damaged building.
After the shelling of the Dnieper, Russia launched a new wave of airstrikes in Ukraine. The Ukrainian Air Force announced today that it has destroyed four out of six cruise missiles and three out of five Iranian-made Shahed drones launched by Russian forces.
For its part, the Kyiv military administration indicated that all Russian attacks on the Ukrainian capital had been intercepted.
Since the start of the war, at least 485 children have died and nearly 1,500 have been injured, the Prosecutor General’s Office said on Telegram today.
Crimea
In addition, in Russian-occupied Crimea, pro-Russian authorities reported shooting down five Ukrainian drones, according to relevant social media posts.
Presumably, Ukrainian drones were shot down over the Dzhankoy district, the occupying authorities report in the Telegram messenger.
Source: APE-MPE, Reuters.
Source: Kathimerini
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