Russian air raids in Ukraine kill at least five in southeastern Dnipro
Ryan King
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Airstrikes pummeled Ukraine Saturday, blasting a nine-story apartment building and killing at least five individuals while injuring dozens more.
Ukraine’s military claims it intercepted 25 missiles of 38 that had been fired by Russia in the tenth major airstrike barrage from its warring neighbor since October. Emergency blackouts engulfed parts of Ukraine following the assault.
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“Eternal memory to all whose lives were taken by terror! The world must stop evil. Debris clearance in Dnipro continues. All services are working. We’re fighting for every person, every life. We’ll find everyone involved in terror. Everyone will bear responsibility. Utmost,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky tweeted with footage of the smoke-plumed wreckage.
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Missiles and explosions rocked the Ukrainian cities of Kharkiv, Lyiv, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, Myokaliv, according to officials, marking a significant escalation since the December ceasefire.
Perhaps the most notable was the damage Zelenksy highlighted of a nine-story apartment complex in the city of Dnipro. Roughly 27 individuals, including six children, were wounded in the attack and later brought to nearby medical facilities for treatment, according to the regional military administration, CNN reported.
Some 15 people have been pulled from the rubble. Air sirens rang loud as the attacks bombarded Ukraine. There were also reports of explosions in Kyiv, but Oleksandr Pavliuk, a commander in the Ukrainian army suggested that Russian attacks were not the main culprit for those explosions, per CNN.
“The explosions are not connected with the threat from the air or air defense, as well as with any military actions,” Pavliuk explained on messaging app Telegram, according to a translation. “If there was a threat — you would have heard the alarm. The cause of the explosions will be reported separately.”
Russia previously enacted a brief “ceasefire” to mark Orthodox Christmas about a week ago and named a new commander, Valery Gerasimov, to oversee the war.
Allies of Ukraine, including France, Poland, and the United Kingdom recently promised to send various tanks to Ukraine to assist with its efforts to defend against Russia’s invasion, which began in February of last year. Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense struck a defiant tone in the wake of the recent airstrikes.
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“Ukrainians are very angry and want revenge. But we are not Russians. Our goal is to drive the occupiers out of our country and bring war criminals to justice. Or send them to a place of divine Justice,” the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense tweeted.
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