The list of victims from Russian strikes continues to grow in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, as yesterday Thursday the number of deaths reached 26, including three children, according to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry.
Ukraine: 26 dead, including three children, in yesterday’s Russian strikes on Kyiv
Until now, authorities had reported 16 deaths, including two children. The ministry stated via Telegram that: “During the night and morning, rescuers pulled 10 bodies from the rubble of an apartment building in the Sviatoshynski district, including that of a two-year-old child,” adding that the bombardments with unmanned aerial attack vehicles and missiles also left behind 159 wounded, including 16 children.
Ukraine suffered new raids on Thursday night into Friday. A 63-year-old man was killed by a projectile that hit a house in the Veselianka community, in the Zaporizhzhia region (southeast), reported military regional governor Ivan Fedorov via Telegram.
In Kyiv, today has been declared an official day of mourning following yesterday’s bombardments, among the deadliest in the Ukrainian capital since the war began with the invasion by Russia’s armed forces into Ukraine in February 2022. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the Russian raid and demanded a “regime change” in Russia.
Trump’s message to Putin
US President Donald Trump called the new wave of Russian strikes “disgusting” and signaled he is preparing to implement even harsher economic sanctions on Russia—and now on all countries doing business with it—emphasizing that “I don’t know if they’ll work, but we’ll do it.”
He has given a 10-day deadline from Tuesday to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to end the armed conflict, the worst in Europe since World War II, which has left behind tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of dead in both countries.
Source: ANA-MPA
