A Russian ballistic missile struck a road in Kyiv in heavy traffic, narrowly missing a car.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky and first lady Olena Zelenska both posted a video of what they said were frightened schoolchildren running and screaming down a Kyiv street toward a bomb shelter as sirens wail.Pieces of a destroyed traffic light were seen dangling above the road.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba tweeted that the dead included a 9-year-old girl, her mother and another woman.A fire erupted in the middle of a traffic lane and sent plumes of thick, black smoke shooting into the sky.“Children’s Day has to be about safe childhood, summer, life,” Zelenska tweeted. “But today it is about new crimes of against children.”
Yaroslav Riabchuk, who was waiting to enter a locked Kyiv air raid shelter when the missiles rained down, described the bloody scene. “I ran, but then an explosion happened,” he said. “Shattered glass started falling, and I knew I had to run back. When I returned, it was over. There was a lot of blood, women, children.”Ukrainian air defenses shot down all 10 cruise and ballistic missiles launched by the Kremlin’s forces Thursday, according to authorities.
Another missile attack in Kyiv Wednesday night killed three people, including an 11-year-old girl and her 34-year-old mother, regional police reported. Eleven other people were wounded.
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