Air raid sirens sounded across Ukraine on Saturday morning after a wave of Russian bombings on Friday left at least four dead, including a one-and-a-half-year-old child, authorities said.
Ukrainian authorities reported that Ukraine has been hit by at least 98 projectile launches in the past 24 hours, especially intense in the Sumy area, with 79 of these attacks affecting several communities, albeit without casualties.
Four people died and another 13 were injured after an attack on the town of Krivoy Rog, in the center of the country, in which the lifeless body of a one-and-a-half-year-old child was found among the rubble of a building this morning.
Dnipropetrovsk Regional Governor Valentin Reznichenko described in a report published today that the dead are a 64-year-old woman and a young couple, identified as the parents of the deceased child.
The head of this region, where Krivoy Rog is located, indicated that all the injured, including four minors, have been taken to a hospital in the city.
Seven of them are in serious condition, according to the Ukrainian national news agency Ukrinform.
The bombings also hit several populated areas in the Zaporijia and Kherson regions, particularly along the right bank of the Dnipro River.
Pending information on possible new airstrikes from Russia, Ukrainian authorities said they were already restoring electricity to the Kiev region after Friday’s attacks, which destroyed “critical infrastructure and nine homes” and left at least four people injured. hit, said the Ukrainian. government.
The European Union regarded this new Russian offensive as yet another example of the “arbitrary terror” that Russia is trying to sow in the neighboring country.
Brussels stressed that these attacks “are war crimes and barbaric”.
“These vicious and inhumane attacks are designed to increase human suffering and deprive the Ukrainian people, as well as hospitals, emergency services and other critical services, of electricity, heating and water,” the European External Action Service said in a statement.
Finally, EU diplomacy appreciated the European bloc’s efforts to help Ukraine and the “strength, courage and resilience” of the Ukrainian people.
Source: DN
