Several cities across the country, including the capital Kyiv, were hit on Monday in a massive attack by the Russian army.
At least 31 people have been killed in one of the largest missile attacks by Russia over Ukraine in recent months.
The attack injured more than 153 people and largely destroyed Kyiv’s main children’s hospital, in what Ukrainian authorities called a war crime.
Russia, for its part, claims that the hospital was damaged following a failure of a Ukrainian anti-missile defense system.
But Volodymyr Zelensky strongly rejected Moscow’s allegations.
“You already see reports that the Ukrainian air defense is to blame, that it was the Ukrainian PPO (Ukrainian air defense), and not their calculated strike. I am grateful to all Ukrainians who started posting videos where you can see, precisely, not a part of this or that missile, but a direct missile strike that injured and killed many people in Ukraine today.” did he declare.
The Ukrainian president said he would request an emergency meeting of the Security Council, while the spokesman for the UN Secretary-General and other UN officials strongly condemned the attack.
Besides Kyivmore than 40 missiles of different types, including hypersonic Kinjals, are said to have hit residential buildings and public infrastructure in the cities of Dnipro, Sloviansk or even Kramatorsk.
HAS Krivoy RogAt least 10 people were killed and more than 40 were injured, the head of the city’s Defense Council said.
The kh-47M2 Kinjal, or Kinžal in Russian (dagger) is a four-ton air-to-ground hypersonic missile, whose speed according to the Russians could reach Mach 10, or 12,000 km/h, in particular due to its ability to be fired from an interceptor aircraft. MiG-31k.
