2023-04-28 20:08:00
28.04.2023 22:08
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Ten residential buildings in Uman were hit by Russian rockets
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke of a “night of terror” following the new Russian rocket attacks. In Uman, central Ukraine, the death toll continued to rise following a Russian rocket attack on a residential building. The Interior Ministry reported the number of 23 dead on Friday evening, previously there had been talk of 20 residents killed.
Accordingly, more bodies had been pulled from the rubble of the partially destroyed house. Four children are among the victims. There were 18 injured, 9 of whom were treated in hospital.
Selenskyj condemned the attack as “terror once morest civilians”. He said two unidentified children were among the dead. “The fate of her parents is unclear,” he said. Rescuers searched the rubble for other possible victims. 109 people were registered in the destroyed part of the house, it said. 27 apartments were completely destroyed. Dozens of cars on the road were damaged by debris.
Zelenskyj demanded more weapons for Ukraine from the West and tougher sanctions once morest Russia as well as a conviction of the perpetrators. “We can only defeat Russian terror together,” he said.
A Russian missile hit a skyscraper in the city on Friday morning. The city administration has ordered a three-day mourning. At least two people were killed and three injured as a result of rocket attacks in the Dnipropetrovsk region. Ukraine has been defending itself from a Russian invasion for more than 14 months.
“As soon as God’s will is there, the weather and the decision of the commanders, we will do it,” Reznikov said in an online press conference, without giving any further details. “Broadly speaking, we’re ready.” Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba tried to lower expectations of the offensive. It will not be the last stand, he said, according to the Ukrinform news agency in Odessa. This battle will be the one that will lead to the complete liberation of Ukraine. “If we need a counter-offensive for that, there will be one. If we need two more, there will be two more.”
The Austrian Foreign Ministry was “deeply appalled” by the Russian attacks. It was “the latest example of Russia’s ongoing violation of international law,” the ministry said on Twitter on Friday followingnoon. “We reaffirm our full solidarity with Ukraine!”
The Russian Ministry of Defense, on the other hand, once once more boasted regarding the rocket attacks in Moscow and announced on Telegram: “Surely to the target”. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu accused the West of having set itself the goal of strategically defeating Russia. The state news agency RIA Novosti quoted the minister as saying that he also wanted to pose a threat to China in order to maintain its own monopoly position. Almost all NATO countries have used their military capabilities once morest Russia.
In addition, according to the Ukrainian military, Russian forces tried to interrupt important supply routes and communication routes to the embattled city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine. The spokesman for the Ukrainian armed forces in the east, Serhiy Cherevatyy, said on Ukrainian television that there had been thirteen battles around Bakhmut in the last 24 hours.
The Ukrainian President, meanwhile, once once more commented positively on a recent phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The conversation was regarding the territorial integrity of Ukraine “including Crimea” and the United Nations Charter. “We have heard respect for all these principles,” said the 45-year-old at a press conference in Kiev on Friday. That is very important. There was no discussion with Beijing regarding mutual visits. Zelenskyi also asked Xi to influence Moscow to bring regarding the return of Ukrainian prisoners of war and “abducted children”.
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