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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that a cruise
missile directly hit the building in Pryluky, some 150
kilometers (93 miles) east of Kyiv, the country's capital.
The strike was part of a massive Russian missile and drone
barrage on Kyiv and a dozen other regions on Wednesday,
coinciding with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s 74th
birthday.
“This is the kind of ‘gift’ Putin gave himself for his
birthday,” Zelenskyy said in a nightly video address Wednesday.
“The killing of children, the killing of people.”
Zelenskyy warned that Russia will likely escalate daily missile
and drone attacks as winter approaches.
Ukraine's energy company DTEK said the national grid operator
Ukrenergo had ordered emergency power outages in Kyiv, and
explained that this is separate from regular, rolling outages
scheduled across the country and would not be applied during
those shutdowns.
Russia and Ukraine are locked in a long-range aerial war while
their armies remain largely deadlocked on the front line, more
than 4 1/2 years since Moscow’s full-scale invasion.
Late Wednesday, Russian drones struck Kyiv’s Obolonskyi and
Desnianskyi districts, police said.
In Obolonskyi, north of central Kyiv, a drone hit a courtyard
between apartment buildings, killing two people and injuring
seven, including a 12-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl.
In Desnianskyi, on the capital’s northeastern outskirts, a drone
hit a residential building, killing two women and injuring five,
among them girls aged 1 and 6.
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