2023-04-28 15:33:00
Russia launched a barrage of long-range cruise missiles at Ukraine early Friday morning, according to Ukrainian officials.
At around 4 a.m. local time (9 p.m. ET), 23 missiles were launched from Russian aircraft in the Caspian Sea area, along with two drones, according to the Ukrainian Air Force. Twenty-one of the missiles were intercepted by Ukrainian air defenses, it said.
However, the missiles hit the Ukrainian cities of Uman, in the Cherkasy region, south of Kyiv, and Dnipro.
Uman: According to the authorities, the death toll in Uman stands at 17, including three children. Eighteen people were injured.
According to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Ihor Klymenko, in one of the affected buildings there were 46 apartments, of which 27 were completely destroyed. Klymenko stated that it will take a day to remove all the rubble.
According to Yulia Norovkova, press officer of the state emergency service of the Cherkasy region, the emergency workers on site “have almost finished clearing the ground floor [del edificio]”and they will continue to comb the building.
CNN also spoke to Liuda, a local woman whose friend lived on the eighth floor. When she heard that the building had been hit, Liuda ran there and found that her friend had survived, but her friend’s husband had been hospitalized and her two daughters, ages 7 and 13, had been hospitalized. they were still missing.
Dnipro: Ukrainian authorities have provided more details about a 31-year-old woman who died, along with her 2-year-old son, after a Russian missile attack on the city of Dnipro on Friday morning.
Serhii Lysak, governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, stated that the woman had moved in with her parents because of the war.
“He thought it would be safer… But now it’s in ashes,” he said. The woman’s parents are hospitalized, according to Lysak.
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