2023-10-21 21:44:38
According to Ukrainian authorities, at least nine people were killed and several injured in Russian air strikes in the south and east of the country within 24 hours. At least six people died in Kharkiv and 14 were injured, some seriously, according to the regional military administrator. One person was killed in the bombing of a residential area in Kryvyi Rih, police said yesterday.
In the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, a postal distribution center was hit by two rockets, according to prosecutors. President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed his condolences to the families of the victims that evening. He called for a tough response to “Russian terror.” “We must increase the pressure on the terrorist state,” he wrote on Telegram.
According to the Ukrainian presidency, another one was killed and one injured in the shelling of the Kherson region in the south of the country. Local authorities also reported a death from Russian shelling in the city of Nikopol on the Dnipro River. According to authorities, a 57-year-old woman was seriously injured by shrapnel in Kryvyi Rih, Zelensky’s hometown.
Injuries were also reported in the Donetsk region in the east of the country. According to the Ukrainian presidency, the industrial city of Avdiivka, which has been the scene of fierce fighting since mid-October, was among those targeted.
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