Ukraine says 24 killed in Russian strikes; NYT reports Donbas gains
At least 24 people were killed in overnight Russian strikes across Ukraine, officials said, while the New York Times reported Ukrainian forces retook land in the Donbas.
Key facts
- At least 24 people died in overnight strikes across central and eastern Ukraine, according to the BBC.
- Zelensky said 70 missiles were fired and that a strike on a five-storey apartment building in Pryluky killed 18 people, including four children.
- Ukraine's State Emergency Service said 50 people were injured in the Pryluky strike, including seven children.
- Zelensky said Ukraine struck four targets in Russia's Perm, Samara and Astrakhan regions in the past 24 hours, including two oil facilities.
- The New York Times reported Ukrainian forces have retaken land in the Donbas; Moscow says its capture of the region is inevitable.
At least 24 people died in overnight strikes across central and eastern Ukraine, according to the BBC. President Volodymyr Zelensky said 70 missiles were fired in total and that strikes hit Kyiv, Dnipro, Kremenchuk, Zaporizhzhia and Oleksandriya. He described the attacks as one of Russia's 'most vile'.
Zelensky said 18 people, including four children, were killed in one strike on a five-storey apartment building in Pryluky in the Chernihiv region. He called the strike a 'birthday gift' to Putin, who turns 74 on Wednesday. Ukraine's State Emergency Service said 50 people were injured in that attack, including seven children.
Zelensky said two people were killed in Kyiv and two in Oleksandriya. He said two people were also killed and eight injured after strikes damaged five apartment buildings in Dnipro and four high-rise buildings in Kremenchuk.
Ukraine's national police posted images of what it said was an unexploded Russian Iskander missile in a Kyiv district; BBC Verify confirmed the images are genuine. Zelensky renewed a call for allies to provide air defence support packages, saying Ukraine's military shot down only 'some' of the missiles launched overnight.
Zelensky said Ukraine struck four targets in retaliatory attacks in the past 24 hours, including two oil facilities and a training ground in Russia's Perm, Samara and Astrakhan regions. He also said there was 'a response in the Black Sea' without giving details. The Russian transport ministry said unmanned boats attacked the Liberian-flagged Aframax Rio oil tanker off the coast of Sochi, and Russian authorities said the crew was rescued, according to the BBC. Bulgaria halted a search for the missing crew of a ship that sank after being hit by a drone on Tuesday, Vice-Admiral Rumen Nikolov said, according to the BBC.
The New York Times reported that Ukrainian forces have retaken land in the Donbas and stymied Russian efforts to encircle Ukrainian 'fortress belt' cities. Moscow says its capture of the region is inevitable, the newspaper reported.
Context
Zelensky said one of the 'key targets' of the overnight attack was Ukraine's energy infrastructure. According to the BBC, Moscow earlier said it would intensify strikes on Ukrainian energy facilities following Ukrainian strikes on Russian energy facilities.
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