Ukraine: Russian missile strike kills 12 south of Kyiv

Russian missiles struck town of Vinnytsia Thursday, killing 12 individuals and wounding 25 extra in what Ukraine’s president known as “an open act of terrorism” on the nation’s civilian inhabitants in areas with no navy worth.

Ukraine’s nationwide police stated three missiles hit an workplace constructing and broken close by residential buildings within the metropolis situated southwest of the capital Kyiv. The missile strike ignited a hearth that expanded to engulf 50 vehicles in an adjoining car parking zone.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated a toddler was among the many lifeless. He instructed the assault was intentionally geared toward terrorizing civilians.

“Every day Russia is destroying the civilian population, killing Ukrainian children, directing missiles at civilian objects. Where there is no military (targets). What is it if not an open act of terrorism?” Zelenskyy wrote on the Telegram messaging app.

The Vinnytsia strike got here after Ukraine’s presidential workplace reported the deaths of 5 civilians and the wounding of one other eight in Russian assaults over the previous day.

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