Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reiterates name for Western allies to permit Ukraine to strike army targets deep inside Russia.
Not less than one girl has been killed and 42 individuals injured after a Russian-guided bomb struck a multistorey residence constructing in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest metropolis.
Prosecutors within the northeastern metropolis mentioned on Sunday that the physique of a 94-year-old girl had been recovered from the ninth ground of the constructing, which caught hearth after it was hit by the bomb.
Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov mentioned 42 individuals, together with three youngsters, had been injured when the bomb hit the tenth ground of the constructing. The hearth unfold throughout no less than 4 flooring and 12 different buildings had been additionally broken, he added.
Following the assault, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reiterated his name for Ukraine’s Western allies to permit the nation to make use of weaponry on targets deep inside Russia to avoid wasting lives.
“Each Russian strike of this nature, each occasion of Russian terror, like right this moment in Kharkiv… this proves that there have to be long-range capability and it have to be adequate,” he mentioned.
Zelenskyy mentioned Russia had additionally struck the Sumy and Donetsk areas on Sunday with guided bombs and that the Russian military carried out “no less than 100 such air assaults” each day.
Hundreds of civilians have been killed in Ukraine since Russia started its full-scale invasion of the nation in February 2022. Russia denies deliberately focusing on civilians.