Kyiv [Ukraine], July 30 (ANI): Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday said Russian forces launched a massive overnight aerial assault across several regions of Ukraine, killing at least eight people, including parents and three children, while injuring dozens more.
In a post on X, Zelenskyy said, “Last night, a Russian missile strike on Radushne in the Dnipro region killed parents and three children. Two more children were pulled alive from under the rubble.”
He said the missile strike destroyed a residential home, while rescue operations were also underway in Lviv after another residential building was hit.
“So far, eight people have been reported killed across the country. My condolences to their families and loved ones. Dozens of people were injured, and everyone is receiving the necessary medical care. All the relevant services are involved,” he said.
Zelenskyy said Kyiv and the surrounding region, along with Dnipro, Lviv, Poltava, Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, Sumy, Vinnytsia, Cherkasy, and Ivano-Frankivsk, came under attack overnight.
“More than 70 missiles were used in this strike, a significant number of them ballistic. There were also over 280 attack drones. More than 260 drones were intercepted,” he said.
He added that Ukrainian combat aircraft shot down a significant number of cruise missiles, while mobile fire teams also intercepted several others.
Zelenskyy credited Ukraine’s air defense forces with helping repel the attacks but highlighted what he described as a critical shortage of air defense missiles supplied by partner nations.
“Given the critical shortage of air defense missiles from our partners, our warriors are accomplishing truly incredible things, demonstrating a very high level of professionalism,” he said.
“This Russian terror once again proves that protection against the Russian missile threat is the most important task when it comes to saving the lives of our people,” Zelenskyy added.
He urged Ukraine’s international partners to provide assistance more quickly, warning that delays in delivering anti-ballistic missile systems were contributing to casualties and destruction.
“Untimely assistance and delays in the delivery of anti-ballistic missiles lead to this kind of destruction, these kinds of casualties that, unfortunately, we are seeing today,” he said.
Meanwhile, Russia’s Defense Ministry, according to Sputnik, said Russian forces carried out a broad wave of strikes targeting Ukrainian military infrastructure, including airfields, defense industry facilities, logistics hubs, command centers, and supply facilities.
The Russian Defense Ministry said the strikes involved long-range precision-guided weapons launched from land, sea, and air, as well as attack drones.
According to Sputnik, the strikes targeted locations across seven Ukrainian regions, including Kyiv, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zhytomyr, Rivne, Vinnytsia, and Dnipropetrovsk. The reported targets included air bases, arms production facilities, telecommunications infrastructure, logistics centers involved in missile and drone production, storage and transportation, and Ukraine’s air surveillance network.
Sputnik also reported that three dry cargo ships came under fire, including one at the Black Sea port of Yuzhnyi and two off the eastern and southern coasts of Odesa. The vessels were allegedly carrying weapons and other military cargo. (ANI)
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