Nearly twenty people, including some children, were hospitalized, according to local authorities.
Russian troops struck Kryvyi Rih with a ballistic missile on the evening of Friday, December 6, said the head of the administration of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Serhiy Lysak. The attack destroyed a three-story building and damaged residential houses and cars, Ukraine’s National Emergency Service (SESU) said.
Two people were killed and 17 others, including a six-year-old boy, were injured. Eight victims were hospitalized with injuries, Lysak said. Another person could be under the rubble, the National Emergency Service added.
Around 6:00 p.m., the Russian army struck Zaporizhia, according to the head of the regional administration, Ivan Fedorov. The bombing caused a fire at a gas station and lighting problems in some communities.
Nine people were killed in the attack, six others, including two children aged 4 and 11, were injured, Mr. Fedorov said.
Following these strikes, the Ukrainian president declared on Telegram: “Russia’s words mean nothing, but its bombs and missiles speak volumes.”
“The thousands of such strikes carried out by Russia during this war clearly show that Putin does not need real peace, but only the ability to inflict this on any country – “Using bombs, missiles and all other forms of violence, only through force can we resist this, and only through force can true peace be established.”
Russia has recently increased its strikes on civilian infrastructure, particularly electrical infrastructure, in Ukraine, trying to break the Ukrainian people’s will to resist in this war of attrition which is approaching its third anniversary. This campaign intensified after Kyiv received permissions from Western capitals to use long-range missiles supplied by the West to strike targets inside Russia.
Additional sources • Meduza, BBC Russian, Ukrayinska Pravda
