KYIV – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday vowed stern retaliation for a Russian missile strike within the middle of the northern Ukrainian town of Chernihiv that killed seven people and wounded almost 150 others the day before.
“I am sure our soldiers will respond to Russia for this terrorist attack. Respond tangibly,” Zelenskyy mentioned in a video cope with revealed within the early hours of Sunday on the finish of a visit to Sweden, his first international shuttle since attending a NATO summit in Lithuania remaining month.
He recognized a 6-year-old lady named Sofia as a number of the lifeless within the attack and showed that the wounded integrated 15 youngsters.
The governor of the Chernihiv area, Vyacheslav Chaus, mentioned Sunday that the overall selection of people showed to were wounded had risen to 148.
Further east, Russian forces shelled town of Kupiansk on Sunday morning, severely wounding a person, in keeping with Kharkiv regional Gov. Oleh Syniehubov.
Zelenskyy arrived in the Netherlands on Sunday, two days after the rustic mentioned the United States had given its approval for Dutch and Danish government to ship F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine’s air power.
Zelenskyy is assembly Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte at an army air base within the southern town of Eindhoven.
The U.S. approval Friday for the Netherlands and Denmark to ship American-made F-16s to Ukraine was once observed as a big spice up for Kyiv, even supposing the fighter jets gained’t have an affect any time quickly at the almost 18-month war.
In Russia on Sunday, 5 people have been wounded when a Ukrainian drone hit a teach station within the town of Kursk, regional Gov. Roman Starovoit mentioned. Kursk is the capital of the western area of the similar identify, which borders Ukraine.
According to Starovoit, the drone crashed into the roof of the railway station development, with a fireplace therefore breaking out at the roof.
Russian air defenses jammed a drone flying against Moscow early Sunday inflicting it to crash. Russia’s Defense Ministry known as it “an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack.”
Moscow’s Vnukovo and Domodedovo airports briefly suspended flights, but no victims or damage were reported.
Ukrainian authorities, which generally avoid commenting on attacks on Russian soil, didn’t say whether it launched the attacks.
Drone moves at the Russian border areas are a somewhat common prevalence. Attacks deeper inside of Russian territory were on the upward thrust since a drone was destroyed over the Kremlin in early May. Successful moves have uncovered the vulnerabilities of Moscow’s air protection programs.
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