A woman and an eight-month-old baby were found on Sunday in the rubble of the building hit by a Russian drone in Odessa on Friday night, raising the death toll to 10, Ukrainian authorities said on Sunday .
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In this attack on a nine-story building in the port city on the Black Sea, “ten people, including three children, were killed,” complained Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“Marc: who wasn’t even three years old; Elizaveta: eight months; and Timothy: four months,” he listed on Telegram. “Ukrainian children are Russia’s military targets,” he denounced.
Earlier, the region's governor, Oleg Kiper, indicated on Sunday that a woman and her baby had been found “next door,” bringing the death toll from the Russian attack to ten.
The mother and baby were “found pressed together,” Ukrainian emergency services said on Telegram.
However, the authorities did not provide any information about the number of injured people, although the emergency services reported eight confirmed injuries on Saturday evening.
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Volodymyr Zelensky said that “five people” had already been rescued, but children “could” still be under the rubble. “The search operations continue,” he added.
“Today Odessa and the region mourn the victims of the Russian attack,” Mr. Kiper also said in a separate message on Telegram, calling for “great pain” for “the entire Ukraine.”
On Saturday, in his daily speech, Volodymyr Zelensky denounced Russian “terror” that is “aimed exclusively at destroying and intimidating lives.”
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At the same time, he again called on Kiev's Western allies to deliver more and faster ammunition, which Kiev is sorely lacking, air defense systems and fighter aircraft to defend against the Russian army.
“Delays in arms deliveries to Ukraine (…) unfortunately lead to such losses,” he said, referring to the deadly Russian attack on Odessa.
Elsewhere in Ukraine, “one person was killed and three others injured” in the Kherson region on Sunday after Russian attacks, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry said on Telegram.
According to the Ukrainian regional prosecutor's office, five more people were injured in two Russian bomb attacks in the Donetsk region (east) on the night from Saturday to Sunday.
In the area of Avdiivka (East), a town captured by the Russian army in mid-February, Ukrainian General Oleksandr Tarnavsky assured on Sunday that the situation was “stabilizing.”
“(It) remains complicated but under control.”