The number of deaths of a Russian missile strike in the Ukrainian Central City of Kryvyi Rih went to 18, including nine children, said regional governor Serhii Lysak on Saturday.
61 other people were injured in the attack on Friday, ranging from a three -month -old baby to the elderly. Forty people remain hospitalized, including two children in critical condition and 17 in serious condition.
“There can never be forgiveness for that,” said Oleksandr Vilkul, head of the city’s defense council. “Eternal memory to the victims.”
Kryvyi Rih is the hometown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
“The missile hit an area right next to the residential buildings – hitting a playground and ordinary streets,” wrote Zelenskyy on Telegram.
Local authorities said the strike damaged around 20 apartments, more than 30 vehicles, an educational building and a restaurant.
The Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday that it had made a high -precision missile strike with an explosive warhead on a restaurant where a meeting with unit commanders and Western instructors took place.
The Russian army said the strike killed 85 soldiers and foreign officers and destroyed 20 vehicles. The claims of the military could not be verified independently. Ukrainian general staff rejected complaints.
A subsequent drone strike on Kryvyi Rih killed a woman and injured seven other people.
“ Russia only wants war ”
Zelenskyy blamed the daily strikes of Russia’s reluctance to end war. “Each missile, each drone strike proves that Russia only wants war,” he said, urging Ukraine allies to increase pressure on Moscow and strengthen Ukraine air defenses.
The Ukrainian president also criticized the United States Embassy’s response to kyiv on strike. Ambassador Bridget A. Brink Published on social networks Friday that she was “horrified” by Kryvyi Rih’s strike. “More than 50 people injured and 16 killed, including 6 children. This is why the war must end,” said the position.
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Zelenskyy, who has so far had a tense relationship with US President Donald Trump, described the post as “unpleasantly surprising” not to directly name Russia as the attacking on the attack.
“A country so strong, such a strong people-and such a weak reaction. They are even afraid of saying the word” Russian “when they spoke of the missile that killed children,” he said in an article that also praised countries, notably Japan, Great Britain, Switzerland and Germany for their “declarations of principle”.
“Yes, war must end. But to end it, we must not be afraid to call a cat a cat,” he said.
The Russian forces launched 92 drones in Ukraine overnight, with 51 slaughtered by the air defenses, wrote Ukrainian social networks on Saturday. 31 Other lures drones have not achieved their objectives either, he said.
Elsewhere, a person died on Saturday in the city occupied by Russia of Horlivka in the Donetsk region of Ukraine due to bombing, said Governor of Moscow Denis Pushilin. Security officials told the Russian state news channels that they had destroyed 28 Ukrainian drones in the Donetsk region overnight, marking the first time that the occupied territory had been targeted by such long -term strikes.
