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President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the Russian forces fired more
than 40 missiles targeting different cities and damaging
infrastructure, commercial and residential buildings in
different Ukrainian cities.
Kyiv city authorities said seven people were killed and at least
25 were wounded in the strike on the capital. In Kryviy Rih, the
native city of Zelenskiy, 10 people were killed and 31 were
injured, said Mayor Oleksandr Vilkul.
Another three people died in Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine when
missiles hit an industrial facility, said Donestk regional
governor.
"All services are involved to save as many people as possible,"
Zelenskiy said on the Telegram messaging app. "And the whole
world should use all its determination to finally put an end to
the Russian strikes."
Russia has repeatedly denied targeting civilians.
The major attack on Ukraine came as Hungarian Prime Minister
Viktor Orban met Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss a
potential Ukraine peace deal, paying an unexpected visit
to Beijing.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said the attack on the capital was
one of the heaviest since the start of Russia's invasion in
February 2022.
He said the city's main children hospital was damaged in the
strike. Windows were smashed and panels ripped off. Parents
holding babies walked out into the street, dazed and sobbing.
"We heard an explosion, then we were showered with debris,”
Svitlaka Kravchenko, 33, told Reuters after she and her husband
Viktor, went out from the shelter.
Their two-month old baby had been unharmed, but Svitlana had
suffered cuts, and their car was totally buried under the rubble
of the destroyed building across the courtyard from the main
ward.
“It was scary. I couldn’t breathe, I was trying to cover (my
baby). I was trying to cover him with this cloth so that he
could breathe," she said.
Local and regional authorities said industrial facilities,
infrastructure and residential and commercial buildings were
damaged in Kyi, Kryviy Rih, Dnipro, Pokrovsk, Kramatarosk and
others.
(Additional reporting by Anastasiia Malensko and Yuliia Dysa;
Editing by Sharon Singleton)
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