Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has vowed a stern retaliation to the Russian missile strike within the middle of the northern Ukrainian metropolis of Chernihiv that killed seven folks and wounded over 100 others the day earlier than
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowed Sunday a stern retaliation to the Russian missile strike within the middle of the northern Ukrainian metropolis of Chernihiv that killed seven folks and wounded over 100 others the day earlier than.
“I’m certain our troopers will reply to Russia for this terrorist assault. Reply tangibly,” Zelenskyy stated in a video handle revealed within the early hours of Sunday on the finish of a go to to Sweden, his first international journey since attending a NATO summit in Lithuania final month.
He named a six-year-old woman, Sofia, as among the many {dead} within the assault and confirmed that the wounded included 15 kids.
The governor of the Chernihiv area, Vyacheslav Chaus, stated Sunday that the overall variety of folks wounded had risen to 148.
Additional east, Russian forces shelled the town of Kupiansk on Sunday morning, critically wounding a person, in line with Kharkiv regional Gov. Oleh Syniehubov.
In the meantime, in Russia, 5 folks have been wounded when a Ukrainian drone hit a prepare station within the metropolis of Kursk, regional Gov. Roman Starovoit stated early Sunday. Kursk is the capital of the western area of the identical identify, which borders Ukraine.
In line with Starovoit, the drone crashed into the roof of the railway station constructing, with a hearth subsequently breaking out on the roof.
Russian air protection jammed a drone flying in the direction of Moscow early Sunday inflicting it to crash. Russia’s Protection Ministry referred to as it “an try by the Kyiv regime to hold out a terrorist assault.”
Moscow’s Vnukovo and Domodedovo airports briefly suspended flights, however no victims or harm have been reported.
Ukrainian authorities, which usually keep away from commenting on assaults on Russian soil, didn’t say whether or not it launched the assaults. Drone strikes on the Russian border areas are a reasonably common incidence.
Drone assaults deeper inside Russian territory have been on the rise since a drone was destroyed over the Kremlin in early Might. Profitable strikes have uncovered the vulnerabilities of Moscow’s air protection programs.