Volodymyr Zelenskiy has vowed to hit back after seven people including a six-year-old girl were killed and 144 wounded in a Russian missile strike on a central square in the historic northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv on Saturday.
The Ukrainian president said: “I am sure our soldiers will give a response to Russia for this terrorist attack. A notable response.”
Reuters reports that Zelenskiy also said in his nightly video address, delivered early on Sunday at the end of a visit to Sweden, that of the 144 people injured, 15 were children, and named the girl killed as Sofia.
Fifteen others injured were police officers, interior minister Ihor Klymenko said on the Telegram messaging app. Most of the victims were in vehicles, crossing the road or returning from church, he said.
Regional governor Viacheslav Chaus said 41 people were in hospital on Saturday.
Zelenskiy said the attack on Chernihiv, about 145km (90 miles) north of Kyiv, coincided with the Orthodox holiday of the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord. People leaving church and others passing by were among those hurt when the missile hit a theatre where a meeting was taking place, Chaus said.
Law enforcement agencies were looking into how Russians became aware of the event, which Chaus said included business and community representatives but Ukrainian media reported involved drone manufacturers.
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Russian air defences jammed a Ukrainian drone flying towards Moscow early on Sunday and it crashed, Reuters has quoted the defence ministry as saying.
The Russian ministry said there were no casualties.
Moscow mayor Sergey Sobyanin said on Telegram that the drone had been flying in a southerly direction towards the Russian capital.
The Moscow region has been targeted in a series of drone attacks this year.
A Ukrainian drone hit a railway station in the western Russian city of Kursk, injuring five people, the regional governor said early on Sunday.
Roman Starovoyt said on Telegram that according to preliminary information, the drone crashed into the roof of the train station building, after which a fire broke out on the roof.
Five people were slightly injured by glass fragments, he said.
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Volodymyr Zelenskiy has vowed to hit back after seven people including a six-year-old girl were killed and 144 wounded in a Russian missile strike on a central square in the historic northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv on Saturday.
The Ukrainian president said: “I am sure our soldiers will give a response to Russia for this terrorist attack. A notable response.”
Reuters reports that Zelenskiy also said in his nightly video address, delivered early on Sunday at the end of a visit to Sweden, that of the 144 people injured, 15 were children, and named the girl killed as Sofia.
Fifteen others injured were police officers, interior minister Ihor Klymenko said on the Telegram messaging app. Most of the victims were in vehicles, crossing the road or returning from church, he said.
Regional governor Viacheslav Chaus said 41 people were in hospital on Saturday.
Zelenskiy said the attack on Chernihiv, about 145km (90 miles) north of Kyiv, coincided with the Orthodox holiday of the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord. People leaving church and others passing by were among those hurt when the missile hit a theatre where a meeting was taking place, Chaus said.
Law enforcement agencies were looking into how Russians became aware of the event, which Chaus said included business and community representatives but Ukrainian media reported involved drone manufacturers.
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Volodymyr Zelenskiy has vowed to hit back at Russia after a rocket attack on a central square in the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv left seven people dead, including a six-year-old child, and 144 injured on Saturday.
The Ukrainian president said early on Sunday: “I am sure our soldiers will give a response to Russia for this terrorist attack – a notable response.”
Interior minister Ihor Klymenko said most of the victims were in vehicles, crossing the road or returning from church. The strike occurred during an Orthodox holiday.
The UN’s humanitarian coordinator for Ukraine, Denise Brown, condemned the attack as “heinous”.
In the western Russian city of Kursk, meanwhile, a Ukrainian drone hit a train station, injuring five people, the regional governor said early on Sunday.
More on those stories shortly. In other news.
The Ukrainian air force said it shot down 15 out of 17 Russian drones targeting northern, central and western regions overnight into Saturday. Civilian infrastructure was damaged in at least two regions, authorities said.
Training had begun for Ukrainians to operate US F-16 fighter jets but it would take at least six months and possibly longer, the Ukrainian defence minister said. Oleksiy Reznikov’s comments on Saturday came two days after a US official said F-16s would be transferred to Ukraine once its pilots were trained.
Ukraine has begun discussing with Sweden the possibility of receiving Gripen jets to boost its air defences, Zelenskiy said on Saturday after meeting the Swedish prime minister, Ulf Kristersson. Zelenskiy cast the talks as preliminary, saying: “Today we discussed in detail the future steps regarding the possibility of opening the subject of receiving Swedish Gripens.” He also said Ukrainian pilots had already begun training on the planes. Kristersson made no mention of Gripens in his remarks. The two leaders announced that the two countries agreed to strengthen cooperation on production, training and servicing of Swedish CV-90 infantry fighting vehicles.
Russia’s defence ministry reported a flurry of Ukrainian drone attacks on Saturday targeting the regions of Moscow, Novgorod to the north-west of the Russian capital, and Belgorod, which borders Ukraine. The ministry said nobody was hurt. The Belgorod region, more than 600km from Moscow, is a vital stop on Russian supply lines and is frequently targeted by drones and missiles.
In Russia, President Vladimir Putin visited top military officials in the city of Rostov-on-Don near the Ukrainian border. The Kremlin said the Russian president listened to reports from Valery Gerasimov, the commander in charge of Moscow’s operations in Ukraine, and other top military figures at the headquarters of Russia’s southern military district.
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