Kryvyi Rig has been focused by Russian forces all through the invasion (Representational)
Kyiv:
A Russian strike on President Volodymyr Zelensky’s residence city in southern Ukraine on Wednesday killed eight folks and wounded practically two dozen extra, officers mentioned.
The Ukrainian chief posted video footage from the scene of the assault in Kryvyi Rig displaying rescue employees scouring particles for survivors, with smoke billowing from a destroyed constructing.
“The loss of life depend has risen to eight folks. No less than 21 folks have been wounded, together with two youngsters. One other 4 individuals are lacking,” Inside Minister Igor Klymenko mentioned on social media.
Zelensky in his put up referred to as on Ukraine’s allies to step up deliveries of refined aerial batteries to chase away Russian aerial assaults.
“Trendy air defence programs can present most safety for folks, our cities and our positions. And we want them as a lot as doable,” he wrote.
Kryvyi Rig, which had a pre-war inhabitants of round 635,000, has been focused by Russian forces all through the invasion, launched by the Kremlin in February 2022.
It lies within the industrial Dnipropetrovsk area the place officers mentioned three civilians, together with a 13-year-old boy, had been wounded in a Russian drone assault in a single day.
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