Russia Missile Strikes Ukraine War: At least one person was killed in a Russian missile attack and subsequent fire on a small town in southeastern Ukraine. Seven civilians including three childrenThe country’s authorities said they had surveyed the deadly toll of two days of fierce Russian attacks on Sunday.
In addition to those killed, dozens of others, including a pregnant woman and five 14-year-old girls, were being treated for injuries after the attack, Yuri Borzenko, chief doctor at the Zaporizhia Regional Children’s Hospital, said in a phone interview. The southeastern city, Vilnius, which took place on Saturday.
The girls went for a walk together in the afternoon sunlight, Dr. Borzenko said, when explosions from the projectiles ripped through the center of the city, engulfing shops, cars and homes in flames. Shrapnel was embedded in the skull of one of the girls, who was left in a coma, he said, “still between life and death.”
“Her parents are in really bad shape, I just saw them,” he added.
As the attacks rained down, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reiterated his request to ease restrictions on the use of long-range American missiles, known as ATACMS, so that Ukraine could target warplanes over Russian airfields before bombing them. .
“Long-range strikes and modern air defenses are the foundation for stopping daily Russian terror,” he said on Sunday. Statement with video Said to show the results of the worst attacks of the week.
The strike in Vilnius was one of a series of attacks across Ukraine that have killed at least 24 civilians since Friday evening, according to local officials and emergency workers, who said many more were injured.
Also on Saturday, nine people living in frontline villages in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region were killed by Russian shelling. Local officials said. At least six more were killed in the shooting on Sunday morning, officials added.
Three powerful guided bombs dropped from Russian warplanes exploded in the northeastern city of Derhachi in Kharkiv region on Saturday, hitting five high-rise apartment buildings. Ukrainian officials said. No deaths were reported but two elderly men were said to have been hospitalized with shrapnel wounds.
On Sunday night, the Russians attacked Kharkiv with a second guided bomb, which hit a branch of the postal service, Nova Poshta, emergency services said. At least one person, a postal driver, was killed and at least nine others injured after a bomb exploded in a residential neighborhood.
Mr. Zelensky said on Sunday that about 800 of those powerful bombs, packed with hundreds of pounds of explosives, were dropped by Russian warplanes last week.
Although the Ukrainian air force said it shot down 10 Russian drones on Saturday, one such attack killed a 67-year-old man in the southern Kherson region. Local officials said.
A Russian missile also hit a high-rise apartment building in Dnipro, central Ukraine, on Friday evening. After days of wading through the rubble, Rescue workers said On Sunday, one person was confirmed dead and two more were missing.
About 48 hours later, on Sunday evening, a missile was fired over the capital Kiev, sending debris crashing into an apartment complex, city officials said. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
Many of the attacks captured on video by Ukrainian news outlets – all reported by local officials by phone, the National Police, emergency services and local hospitals – occurred within 48 hours and were only a partial snapshot of the daily. Violence
As Russian forces have stepped up attacks on the front, they have continued to launch attacks across Ukraine, exploiting gaps in air defenses, with the aim of depleting the country of resources, crippling the economy and breaking public sentiment.
The total number of civilians killed in June is not yet available but May was the deadliest month for civilians in Ukraine in a year. According to the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission.
Investigators with the mission reported that at least 174 civilians were killed and 690 others injured in conflict-related violence that month.
The rising death toll coincides with the continued bombardment of Ukraine’s power grid, making life challenging for millions of residents who already endure hours of daily scheduled blackouts.
Russia has regularly attacked thermal power plants across Ukraine, resulting in the loss of 90 percent of their generating capacity, Ildar Saliyev, head of DTEK, one of the country’s main private electricity companies, said. said in a statement.
“Due to the scale of the destruction, repairs will take years rather than months,” Mr Saliyev wrote.
Ukrainian officials are trying to prepare the public for what is likely to be another difficult winter, and they are appealing to international partners to speed up the delivery of air defense systems that could limit further damage and save lives.
Even in the best-case scenario — with no further major damage to the grid — energy officials have said Ukrainians should prepare for a winter of widespread blackouts.
Serhii Kovalenko, head of Yasno, another private energy company in Ukraine, said the energy system is likely to have significant daily deficits as winter approaches.
“If critical infrastructure is repaired and then the remaining supply is distributed, consumers may face losses of up to 50 percent,” he said in a statement. “So, the basic forecast is 12 hours without electricity.”
Anna Lukinova Contributed reporting from Kyiv. Natalia Novosolova Contributed to the research.
Russia Missile Strikes Ukraine War