Russia unleashed a fresh volley of missiles on Ukraine overnight in a city in the east, killing two people, setting off huge blazes and damaging dozens of homes and other buildings. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy announced the two deaths in his nightly video address, vowing: 'The Russian occupiers will receive our answer for every such strike. 'The terrorists' missiles took the...
Mikhail looks at the caskets of his sister and brother, Sofia and Kyrylo, during their funeral after Friday's Russian missile strike destroyed his apartment building where his family lived, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the town of Uman, Cherkasy region, Ukraine April 30, 2023.Russia unleashed a fresh volley of missiles on Ukraine overnight in a city in the east, killing two people, setting off huge blazes and damaging dozens of homes and other buildings.
Zelenskiy also said a 14-year-boy was killed near his school when it was hit by a bomb in the Chernihiv region, close to the Russian border. "I ran outside and saw the garage was destroyed. Everything was on fire, glass shards were everywhere. Had we been outside, we would have been killed," said resident Olha Lytvynenko, 61."We rushed to the hallway, laid on the floor. And then the explosion wave twisted the door. Had we stayed for five more seconds, we would have been trapped here," she said.
Russian news reports said two civilians were killed by Ukrainian shelling in a Russian-held area of the south-central Zaporizhzhia region. Ukrainian forces, the reports said, also shelled Russian-held areas of the Donetsk region in the east.With Ukraine readying a counteroffensive to take back territory seized since the invasion was launched 14 months ago, the commander-in-chief of Ukrainian forces, General Valery Zaluzhniy, spoke on Monday to the US Joint Chiefs of Staff.
On the ground, the war is at a potential turning point after five months of Russian assaults that have secured little new territory despite bloody ground combat. A top Ukrainian general said counterattacks by Kyiv's forces had ousted Russian forces from some positions in the city, but that the situation remained difficult.
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