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Russia on Tuesday launched a series of missile and drone attacks against Ukraine, killing at least 15 and wounding dozens in Kyiv, in what has been dubbed the deadliest strike in the capital city since Moscow launched its offensive in 2022.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said “an entire section of an apartment block” was destroyed and rescuers were searching under the rubble for possible survivors.
Several residents in Kyiv rushed to nearby metro stations to take shelter from Russian shelling, sleeping on mats, exchanging information on the drone and missile threat or reassuring pets, as witnessed by AFP journalists present at the scene.
“It was probably the most hellish night in my memory for our neighbourhood,” 20-year-old Ukrainian student Alina Shtompel told the news agency.
“It is indescribably painful that our people are going through this right now.”
Some 27 locations in Kyiv were hit, Interior Minister Igor Klymenko said.
Meanwhile, other locations like Odesa were also hit by Russia, where one person was killed and 10 others were severely injured and attacks on the Sumy and Kherson regions later in the day killed two others, authorities said.
Zelenskyy said that Russia has used a total of 440 drones and 32 missiles in Tuesday’s nationwide strikes as he called on the international community not to “turn a blind eye”.
“Russian President Vladimir Putin does this solely because he can afford to continue the war. He wants the war to go on,” he said.
Other Ukrainian leaders joined Zelenskyy in condemning world leaders for not slamming Russia’s actions adequately.
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More Shorts“This is how Russia fights – it kills civilians in ordinary homes, deliberately,” Ukrainian presidential aide Andriy Yermak said in a social media post.
“This is how autocracies fight…. A nuclear power can simply kill civilians in homes, refuse to cease fire, and not receive the necessary reaction from the civilised world. Why? And how many more of our people and children must die?”
With inputs from agencies
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