2023-08-20 10:16:34
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday vowed a tough response to a Russian missile attack the previous day on the center of the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv, which killed seven people and more than 100 others. They were injured.
“I am sure that our soldiers will answer to Russia for this terrorist attack. Respond tangibly,” Zelenskyy said in a video message Sunday morning at the end of a visit to Sweden, his first trip abroad since attending the NATO summit in Lithuania last month.
The president said that among those killed in the attack was a six-year-old girl named Sofia, and confirmed that 15 of those killed were children.
Chernihiv region governor Vyacheslav Chaus said on Sunday that the number of injured had reached 148.
Further east, Russian forces struck the city of Kupiansk on Sunday morning, where a man suffered serious injuries, according to Kharkiv regional governor Oleh Syniehubov.
Meanwhile, in Russia, five people were injured when a Ukrainian drone struck a train station in the city of Kursk, regional governor Roman Starovoit said on Sunday. Kursk is the capital of the western region of the same name, which borders Ukraine.
The unmanned aircraft crashed into the roof of the station building, where a fire broke out.
Russian air defenses electronically intercepted a drone flying towards Moscow on Sunday morning to cause it to crash. The Russian Defense Ministry described it as “an attempt by the kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack.”
Vnukovo and Domodedovo airports briefly suspended flights, but no casualties or damage were reported.
Ukrainian authorities, who do not usually comment on attacks on Russian soil, did not say whether they had launched such attacks. Drone raids on Russian border areas are quite common.
Drone strikes in the Russian hinterland have been on the rise since a drone was destroyed over the Kremlin in early May. Successful strikes have exposed the vulnerability of Moscow’s air defenses.
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