At least 12 people were killed Thursday in Russian strikes in Vinnytsia, a city of 370,000 in central Ukraine hitherto relatively free from fighting, Ukrainian emergency services announced. “As of 12:15 (local time, editor’s note), 12 dead and 25 injured,” Ukraine’s Emergency Situations Service said on Facebook, adding that firefighters were fighting a fire caused by the attacks. A small child is among the dead, Ukrainian police chief Ihor Klymenko said.
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The images published by the emergency services also show the charred corpses of many cars, some returned to the roof next to a building of about ten floors burned and disemboweled by the explosion. According to the emergency services, the strike hit the parking lot attached to this commercial building in the center of Vinnytsia, which houses offices and small clothing and shoe repair shops.
The Ukrainian authorities reacted immediately. Thus, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, condemned an “open act of terrorism”. “Every day Russia kills civilians, kills Ukrainian children, fires missiles at civilian targets where there is nothing military. What is this, but an open act of terrorism? ”, He denounced in Telegram messages. He also described Russia as a “murderous terrorist country”.
Source: BFM TV
