Zelensky's Hometown Hit in Russian Missile Strike
A Russian missile strike hit two apartment buildings in the central Ukrainian city of Krivoi Rog on Tuesday, killing three people and injuring at least 38. Among the injured were 10 children.
The strike came as Russia continued its bombardment of Ukrainian cities two years after its invasion of the neighbouring country, Reuters reports.
Serhiy Lysak, the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, put the provisional toll at 28 adults and 10 children and later said that rescue operations had been completed.
"Two buildings were hit, one with five floors, the other with nine floors," Lysak wrote on Telegram. "The number of injured is constantly growing, as is the number of children injured."
Oleksandr Vilkul, the head of the military administration in Krivoy Rog, said that the city was hit by at least three missile strikes.
He said that at least five of the adults and one child who were being treated in hospital were in critical condition. Nine people were rescued after searches were carried out from apartment to apartment, and all fires at the scene had been brought under control.
Video footage showed a fire raging in the upper part of an apartment block and rescue workers carrying the injured from the entrances of the damaged buildings.
With balconies blown off and windows shattered, cranes reached the upper floors of the buildings alongside floodlights.
Emergency services and residents are rescuing people trapped in their apartments and continue to search for anyone who may be under the rubble," Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko wrote.
Krivoi Rog has been a frequent target of Russian attacks.
President Volodymyr Zelensky, who was born and raised in the city, praised the rescue workers on Telegram and vowed that Russia would be held accountable.
"Every day, our cities and villages suffer similar attacks. Every day, Ukraine loses people because of this Russian war," he wrote. "There can be no pause, not for a day, not for a week, let alone for a month, in supporting the simple defence of lives, for saving people from terror."
Translation by Iurie Tataru
