The sirens of the airstrikes sounded in Kyiv on Saturday as Russia intensified a long-range bombardment of Ukrainian cities that has caused dozens of deaths in the past three days and injured hundreds.
Earlier, Russian missiles struck the central city of Dnipro, killing three people and wounding 15, regional governor Valentyn Reznychenko told Telegram. The rockets hit an industrial plant and a street next door, he said. Images on social media showed thick black smoke rising from buildings and cars burning.
A long-range Kalibr cruise missile launched by a Russian military ship from an unknown location on Friday. Credit: Russian Ministry of Defense / AP
Eight people were killed and 13 were injured in a series of shells at 10 locations in the eastern Donetsk region, Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko said in a television interview.
The attacks were the latest in a series of recent Russian impacts with long-range missiles against crowded buildings in cities far from the front, each killing dozens of people.
Earlier, Kalibr cruise missiles launched from a Russian submarine into the Black Sea hit an office building in Vinnytsia, a city of 370,000 people about 200 km southwest of Kyiv. Ukraine said the attack killed at least 23 people and injured about 100.
Among the dead was Liza, a four-year-old girl with Down syndrome, found among the rubble next to a pram. Images of her pushing the same stroller, posted by her mother on a blog less than two hours before the attack, went viral quickly.
Bloodstains are seen in a baby stroller after a deadly attack with Russian missiles in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, on Thursday. Credit: AP
Her seriously injured mother, Iryna Dmitrieva, was on a blackout in a hospital for fear of finding out about her daughter’s death, doctors said.
“Pat burns, chest injuries, abdominal injuries, liver and spleen injuries. We sewed the organs, the bones were crushed as if they were going through a meat grinder,” said Oleksandr Fomin, the hospital’s chief physician. of Vinnytsia Emergencies. If they told her about her daughter’s death, “we would lose her.”