KYIV: Soviet missiles slammed into a town in southern Ukraine, killing seven civilians, including children, and wounding dozens more, regional officials reported.
Ukrainian authorities published images of bodies stretched away under picnic pillows in a garden in Vilniansk and deep craters in the darkened world next to the charred, distorted remains of a developing.
Thirty- six individuals were wounded in Saturday night’s attack, officials said, and declared a time of mourning Sunday. Vilniansk is in Zaporizhzhia region, less than 30 kilometers ( 20 miles ) from the local capital and north of the front lines, as Russian forces continue to occupy part of the province.
Local Gov. According to Ivan Fedorov, three kids and nine more were among the dead and injured.
In a split Telegram article hours earlier, Fedorov said that the strike damaged a shop, private buildings, and an unknown” important infrastructure” facility in Vilniansk, which had a population of approximately 14, 300 due to Russia’s all- out invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Russia continues to expand out Russian troops in several places along the 1, 000- mile ( 600- mile ) front. Moscow has stepped up attacks in a charge to discharge Ukraine’s resources, generally targeting power services and other vital infrastructure.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, demanded of Kyiv’s European allies to strengthen its air defenses and long-range munitions to deter Russian attacks in the wake of the Vilniansk attack.
In Ukraine’s conflict- broken eastern Donetsk area, eight residents died and 14 more suffered scars on Saturday and immediately, according to regional Gov. Vadym Filashkin, when near- everyday shelling continues in much of the state. Shooting also wounded one human and crippled five more over the same time in the southern Kherson region, its government, Oleksandr Prokudin, reported on Telegram.
According to regional Gov. Four people were hurt, according to Oleh Syniehubov, in the north of Kharkiv, where fierce fighting has raged recently as Russia has launched a cross-border drive that is threatening Ukraine’s second-largest city.
However, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed on Sunday that its forces shot down three hundred Ukrainian drones over six areas of west Russia immediately.
According to a Telegram article from the provincial governor, dirt from one helicopter fell on a town in the Kursk area, destroying windows and causing damage to roofs and fences. Aleksey Smirnov. In the area of Lipetsk, farther north, a helicopter was shot downward as it appeared to pin the industrial zone, regional Gov. Igor Artamonov reported. In neither case were there any casualties.
