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“There can never be forgiveness for this,” 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 struck an area right next to residential buildings
— hitting a playground and ordinary streets,” Zelenskyy wrote on
Telegram.
Local authorities said the strike damaged about 20 apartment
buildings, more than 30 vehicles, an educational building and a
restaurant.
The Russian Defense Ministry claimed Friday that it had carried
out a high-precision missile strike with a high explosive
warhead on a restaurant where a meeting with unit commanders and
Western instructors was taking place.
Russian military claimed that the strike killed 85 military
personnel and foreign officers and destroyed 20 vehicles. The
military’s claims could not be independently verified. The
Ukrainian General Staff rejected the claims.
A later drone strike on Kryvyi Rih killed one woman and wounded
seven other people.
Zelenskyy blamed the daily strikes on Russia’s unwillingness to
end the war: “Every missile, every drone strike proves Russia
wants only war," he said, urging Ukraine’s allies to increase
pressure on Moscow and bolster Ukraine’s air defenses.
“The United States, Europe, and the rest of the world have
enough power to make Russia abandon terror and war,” he said.
Russian forces launched 92 drones into Ukraine overnight, with
51 shot down by air defenses, the Ukrainian air force wrote on
social media Saturday. A further 31 decoy drones also failed to
reach their targets, it said.
Elsewhere, one person died Saturday in the Russian-occupied town
of Horlivka in Ukraine’s Donetsk region due to shelling,
Moscow-installed Gov. Denis Pushilin said. Security officials
told Russian state news channels that they had destroyed 28
Ukrainian drones over the Donetsk region overnight, marking the
first time that the occupied territory had been targeted by such
long-range strikes.
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