Russia kills at least 9 in new wave of air strikes on Ukraine

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UMAN, Ukraine: Russian forces pounded Ukrainian cities with missiles as people slept on Friday (Apr 28), killing at least nine people in their first large-scale air strikes in nearly two months. The early-morning attacks, the latest in a wave of Russian missile and drone strikes since

In the southeastern city of Dnipro, a missile struck a house, killing a two-year-old child and a 31-year-old woman, regional governor Serhiy Lysak said. Three people were also wounded in the attack."This Russian terror must face a fair response from Ukraine and the world," President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote in a Telegram post alongside images of the wreckage."And it will."

Moscow says it does not deliberately target civilians, but its air strikes and shelling have killed tens of thousands of people and devastated cities and towns across Ukraine.The capital Kyiv was also rocked by explosions, with officials reporting that air defence units had destroyed 11 missiles and two drones.Explosions were also reported after midnight in the central cities of Kremenchuk and Poltava, and in Mykolaiv in the south, according to the Interfax Ukraine news agency.

The main focus of fighting has for months been the eastern city of Bakhmut as Russia tries to capture the remaining areas of the industrial Donbas area that it does not yet hold.

 

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