According to Ukrainian authorities, Russian airstrikes in the south and east of the country left at least nine dead and several injured in 24 hours. At least six people died in Kharkiv and 14 were injured, some seriously, according to the regional military administrator. One person was killed in the shelling of a residential area in Kryvyi Rih, police said yesterday.
In the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, a postal distribution center was hit by two rockets, according to prosecutors. President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed his condolences to the families of the victims that night. He called for a tough response to “Russian terror.” “We must increase pressure on the terrorist state,” he wrote on Telegram.
According to the Ukrainian presidency, another was killed and one was injured in the bombing of the Kherson region, in the south of the country. Local authorities also reported one death caused by Russian shelling in the city of Nikopol on the Dnipro River. According to authorities, a 57-year-old woman was seriously injured by shrapnel in Kryvyi Rih, Zelensky’s hometown.
Injuries were also reported in the Donetsk region in the east of the country. According to the Ukrainian presidency, the industrial city of Avdiivka, the scene of violent fighting since mid-October, was among the targets.