Dozens of people have been injured, as well as four Russian officials, in a Ukrainian attack.
Russian missiles have hit a city in southern Ukraine, killing seven civilians, including several children, and injuring dozens, as reported this Sunday by local authorities.
The Ukrainian authorities have published photos of dead bodies lying under picnic blankets in a park in Vilniansk, and graves in the blackened earth next to the charred remains and rubble of a building.
At least 38 people were injured in the Saturday night attack, according to authorities, who declared a day of mourning on Sunday. Vilnyansk It is located in the Zaporizhia region, less than 30 kilometers from the capital and north of the front lines, since the Russian forces continue to occupy part of the province.
The local governor, Ivan Fedorov, said the dead included three children and that among the 38 injured there were nine others.
It said the attack damaged a store, residential buildings and an unspecified “critical infrastructure” facility in Vilniansk, which had a population of around 14,300 people before the total invasion of Ukraine by Russia in February 2022.
Following the Vilnyansk attack, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has asked kyiv’s Western partners to They will reinforce their air defenses and ammunition long-range to deter Russian attacks.
In the eastern Ukrainian Donetsk regionIn the war-torn city, eight civilians were killed and 14 wounded overnight, according to Governor Vadym Filashkin, while Almost daily bombings continue in much of the province.
Russian-appointed officials in Donetsk, partially occupied and illegally annexed by Moscowthey said that the Ukrainian bombings a 4-year-old boy was injured on Sunday already a 15 year old girl.
Four Russian officials injured
According to the Russian Emergencies Ministry, four of its officials were also injured by those bombed on Sunday when they were trying to put out a fire in the local capital, also called Donetsk and occupied by the Kremlin.
The Russian Defense Ministry stated this Sunday that its forces had captured two other villages in the eastern regionin an apparent attempt to lure kyiv into a war of attrition.
