Rescuers recover 22 injured
Russian airstrike kills 2-year-old child
06/04/2023, 11:18 am
A two-year-old child is said to have been killed in a night air raid on the city of Dnipro. According to Ukrainian sources, other people are trapped under the rubble. Three children are seriously injured.
A two-year-old child was killed in an airstrike on a residential area in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro, according to Ukrainian sources. According to the authorities, at least 22 people were injured in the shelling in the center of the country on Sunday night. According to the authorities, the Ukrainian armed forces in Kiev were able to fend off several missiles and drones.
Ukrainian head of state Volodymyr Zelenskyy blamed Russia for the attack in a Facebook post and said other people were trapped under the rubble. The head of state released a video showing emergency services searching for people buried in the rubble.
“During the night, the body of a girl was recovered from under the rubble of a house in the municipality of Pidhorodnenska,” the governor of the region told Telegram. The child had just turned two years old. In addition, a total of 22 people were injured, including five children. According to him, doctors had previously classified the condition of three injured boys as “serious”. They are in operating rooms.
“No Explosions Over the City”
In Kiev, the head of the military and civil administration, Serhiy Popko, said the capital’s air defenses had fended off several missiles and drones. According to preliminary information, “not a single” missile aimed at the capital has reached Kiev, Popko said on Telegram on Sunday. The air defense forces “destroyed everything that was moving towards the city from a great distance”. For the second night in a row, residents of the capital heard “no explosions over the city”.
Russian airstrikes on Ukraine have increased in recent weeks. The Ukrainian army, for its part, is increasingly attacking Russian locations from the air. Ukraine has been preparing for a counteroffensive for months. Zelenskyj announced on Saturday that the preparations were now complete.