One week after a lethal Russian missile strike killed 19 individuals, together with 9 kids and youngsters, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the positioning of the assault in his hometown of Kryvyi Rih.
“An bizarre district. Throughout, there are solely residential buildings, solely civilian constructions,” the president stated, in line with a press release.
The world should not neglect that human lives imply nothing to Russia,” he stated.
A printed video reveals the president laying a stuffed teddy bear on a playground and inserting flowers at makeshift memorials close to a college.
Among the many victims have been 9 kids and youngsters aged between three and 17. The assault wounded 75 Ukrainians, together with 17 kids and broken 60 house blocks, 23 non-public houses and three instructional establishments.
Throughout a subsequent assembly with army officers and the regional administration, Zelensky stated the discussions primarily centered on strengthening air defences within the Dnipropetrovsk area.
“Because the starting of the yr alone, there have been greater than 2,000 air strikes,” the president wrote. That’s virtually twice as many as in the identical interval final yr.
Zelensky additionally visited an area army hospital, the place he introduced medals to troopers. Ukraine has been defending itself towards a Russian invasion for greater than three years.
