WIDESPREAD DAMAGE REPORTED
The president’s workplace put the dying toll at 26, however statements from the varied areas indicated not less than 31 individuals had been killed.
As rescuers picked via the rubble of a strike that hit a home within the southeastern metropolis of Zaporizhzhia, Viktor Chuhunov, 73, informed Reuters he had been at residence when he abruptly heard a robust explosion.
“A lady died right here. I do not know whether or not her son was at residence, possibly he was at work,” he stated of the ruined home.
Eight individuals had been killed and 13 wounded within the southeastern Zaporizhzhia area, the governor stated. Civilian infrastructure amenities had been additionally struck, he stated.
Six individuals had been killed within the central area of Dnipropetrovsk the place missiles struck a purchasing centre, a home and a six-storey residential constructing, the governor stated.
The assault additionally precipitated a hearth in a maternity ward, he stated.
4 individuals had been killed within the Black Sea port metropolis of Odesa and not less than 22 had been wounded, together with two youngsters, the regional governor stated, reporting hits on residential buildings.
One individual was killed in a broken multi-storey residential constructing within the metropolis of Lviv and 30 had been wounded, the regional governor stated. Three colleges and a kindergarten had been broken, the mayor stated.
Within the northeastern metropolis of Kharkiv, a missile strike broken a warehouse, an industrial facility, a medical facility and a transport depot, the regional governor stated. Three individuals had been killed and 13 wounded.
