KYIV: Russian drones slammed right into a busy procuring centre in jap Ukraine Friday (Aug 21), killing 14 folks in an assault condemned as “cynical and despicable” by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The assault on Kryvyi Rig, Zelenskyy’s hometown, comes as Russia has intensified its bombardments of Ukrainian cities in latest months.
4 extra folks, together with three minors, had been killed in one other strike within the southern Mykolaiv area, Inside Minister Ivan Vygivsky mentioned on Telegram.
Movies on social media of the Kryvyi Rig incident confirmed rescuers dashing to assist the wounded on the road outdoors, as smoke poured out of the constructing.
A second drone smashed into the roof of the constructing round half an hour after the primary – a repeat strike that Zelenskyy mentioned in a submit on X was “concentrating on the emergency responders”.
Oleksandr Ganzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional army administration, mentioned the drone strikes had triggered fires within the procuring centre and killed 14 folks, wounding 121 others.
Zelenskyy in his X submit condemned “a completely cynical and despicable strike… carried out by the Russians towards an peculiar procuring heart”.
Kryvyi Rig, an industrial metropolis roughly 60 kilometres from the entrance line, has come beneath repeated Russian assaults all through the conflict.
