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At least 20 dead after 'massive' Russian missile attack on Ukraine cities
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cl4y1pjk2dzo
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Residential buildings, infrastructure and a children’s hospital were damaged," Mr Zelensky said.Plumes of smoke could be seen across the capital Kyiv, while video posted on social media showed the destruction inside and outside of the Okhmadyt children’s hospital.Mr Zelensky said in a social media post that people were trapped under the rubble of the hospital.
“Right now, everyone is helping to clear the rubble - doctors and ordinary people,” the president wrote.Health Minister Viktor Lyashko said cancer and intensive care wards had been hit in the blast.
Elsewhere, Oleksandr Vilkul, head of the military administration in Kryvy Rih, posted on the Telegram messaging app that at least 10 people were killed and 31 wounded following the attack on the city.
Of those, he said 10 were seriously injured.Kryvy Rih is Mr Zelensky’s home town and has been repeatedly attacked by Russia since it launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.Dnipro regional head Sergiy Lysak said one person was killed in Dnipro city and six more injured.
Three people were killed in Pokrovsk, in the eastern Donetsk region, where Russian forces have taken control of a number of villages in recent weeks.The Russian bombardment comes as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Moscow for a two-day state visit and is due to hold talks on Monday with President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin.Moscow has so far not commented on the attacks but has previously insisted its military does not target civilian infrastructure.The UN’s human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine has said civilian casualties have been mounting in recent months, as Russia renewed its air campaign.
President Zelensky has spent months appealing to Western allies to supply additional air defence systems.
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