Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Wednesday that the Ukrainian military had attacked a large Russian airfield in occupied Crimea and thanked his top military commander for staging the strike.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Wednesday that the country's military had attacked a large Russian airfield in Dzhankoi in Rissian-occupied Crimea and thanked his top military commander for staging the strike.
Dzhankoi lies in the northern part of the Crimea peninsula and was seized as part of Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014. Unofficial sources in both Ukraine and Russia had earlier reported a series of explosions at the base.Also Wednesday, three Russian missiles slammed into the city centre of Chernihiv in northern Ukraine, killing at least 17 people, wounding dozens more and damaging civilian buildings, officials said.
"This would not have happened if Ukraine had received sufficient air defence equipment and if the world's determination to counter Russian terror had been sufficient," Zelenskyy said on Telegram. The strike also damaged several multi-storey residential buildings, a hospital, an education facility and dozens of private cars, officials said.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Wednesday echoed Kyiv's plea for more air defence before departing for a meeting with G7 counterparts in Capri, Italy.
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