Russian bomb hits residential building in Ukraine's 2nd largest city,
killing 12-year-old boy
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[October 31, 2024]
By ILLIA NOVIKOV
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces struck a residential building in
Ukraine's second-largest city of Kharkiv on Thursday, killing a
12-year-old boy and injuring scores of others, and launched scores of
other attacks as they continued their grinding onslaught in the
country's east.
Regional head Oleh Syniehubov said the boy was fatally injured when the
building was hit by a Russian 500-kilogram (1,100-pound) glide bomb.
“He was freed from under the rubble with severe head injuries and
fractures," Syniehubov wrote on social media. "Doctors performed
resuscitation measures for more than half an hour. Unfortunately, it was
not possible to save the child.”
Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said at least 35 people were injured in
the attack and others could still be trapped under the rubble, including
a missing 15-year-old boy.
Russia has increasingly used powerful glide bombs to pummel Ukrainian
positions along the 1,000-kilometer (600-miles) line of contact and
strike cities dozens of kilometers (miles) from the front line. Kharkiv,
a city of 1.1 million, is about 30 kilometers (less than 20 miles) from
the border.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has repeatedly urged the United States to
allow Ukraine to use long-range American missiles to strike air bases
deeper in Russia that are used by aicraft carrying glide bombs.
Washington so far has only allowed some strikes close to the border.
Zelenskyy repeated his request Thursday, publishing a video showing the
ravaged building, at least three of its floors destroyed and the rest of
it seriously damaged.
“Partners see what is happening every day," Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram.
"And under these conditions, each of their delayed decisions means at
least dozens, if not hundreds of such Russian bombs against Ukraine.
Their decisions are the lives of our people. Therefore, we must together
stop Russia and do it with all possible force.”
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Rescuers help people after a multi-storey apartment building was hit
by Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, late Wednesday, Oct. 30,
2024. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko)
Early Thursday, Russia also fired 10 missiles of various types at
the Dniester Estuary bridge that connects the northern and southern
parts of the Odesa region, Ukraine's air force said, adding that
only two of them were intercepted. It didn't say whether the bridge
was hit.
Russian forces also sent 43 exploding drones over at least nine
Ukrainian regions, the air force said. It said 17 were shot down, 23
jammed and three flew back to Russian-controlled territories.
The head of Kyiv city administration, Serhii Popko, said debris from
some of the drones that were intercepted over the capital fell in
the Podil district just north of downtown, causing minor damage.
According to Popko, there was only one day in October in which Kyiv
residents did not hear an air alert. During the month, Kyiv
experienced two air alerts per day on average, repelling 20 actual
aerial attacks targeting the city.
In the country's east, Russian forces continued their slow but
steady assault, trying to capitalize on Ukrainian shortages of
manpower and ammunition. In Moscow, the Defense Ministry reported
the capture of the village of Yasna Polyana in the Donetsk region
that lies on the way to the well-fortified Ukrainian stronghold of
Kurakhove.
Ukraine struck back Thursday with drone attacks.
Authorities in the Russia-occupied city of Berdyansk on the Sea of
Azov reported a drone attack on the port early Thursday, saying
three people were injured.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said air defenses on Thursday downed 21
Ukrainian drones over several regions and the Black Sea.
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