Photo: Genya Savilov Agence France-Presse Local residents watch as Ukrainian rescuers clear debris at the site of a Russian missile strike in Dnipro.
Agence France-Presse
Published at 11:18
- Europe
A Russian missile attack killed five people, including a child, and wounded about 20 others Friday night in the city of Dnipro in central Ukraine, regional authorities said Saturday, with President Volodymyr Zelensky denouncing “Russian murderers.”
Other overnight strikes killed one person and wounded another in the Kiev region, according to the regional military administration, while a drone attack on a residential building in the capital Friday killed a teenage girl and wounded five people, according to a new toll.
Five people died in Dnipro, regional governor Sergei Lysak said on Telegram. Earlier, he said a child had been killed.
About 20 people were also injured, including “girls aged 8 and 16 and two boys aged 17”, in the missile attack which took place shortly before midnight on Friday, he said.
Residential buildings, homes and hospital buildings were damaged, according to the same source.
200% Deposit Bonus up to €3,000 180% First Deposit Bonus up to $20,000Sergei Lysak published images showing ruined buildings surrounded by debris and what appears to be a hospital room with blown-out windows.
Dnipro is a large city on the banks of the Dnieper River, relatively far from the front but very regularly targeted by airstrikes.
“After all that was said in Kazan, the Russian murderers have “returned to their old ways,” wrote Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, referring to the BRICS summit in Russia this week.
Many leaders there called for “peace,” without elaborating on the measures that would help achieve it or denouncing the Russian invasion, during the meeting of this group that includes China and India.
The trip to Kazan by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, provoked the ire of kyiv.
Volodymyr Zelensky refused to receive Mr. Guterres in Ukraine because of his visit to Russia, a senior official in the Ukrainian presidency told AFP on Friday.
Last night’s strikes demonstrate the need to put “pressure” on Russia to force it to stop its “terror and war,” the leader insisted on Saturday Ukrainian.
Russian advance in the East
Other attacks in the kyiv region killed a woman and wounded a teenager overnight, the regional military administration said.
Earlier on Friday evening, a drone crashed into a residential tower in the capital, kyiv, causing a fire, killing a teenage girl and injuring six people, including one who had to be hospitalized, according to a new report released Saturday by the head of the local military administration, Sergiy Popko.
It was the 16th airstrike on kyiv in October, he said.
An AFP journalist at the scene saw what appeared to be a drone buzzing above the building before crashing into it, creating a fireball.
Ukraine is targeted almost daily by air attacks from Russia, which launched an invasion of its territory in February 2022.
It responds by also regularly striking Russian regions, especially those located near its border.
At the same time, the Russian army is advancing in eastern Ukraine against Ukrainian forces that are too few in number to stop it.
On Saturday, the Russian Defense Ministry again claimed responsibility for taking a small village in the Donetsk region, Oleksandropil.