乌克兰当局周四表示,俄罗斯对乌克兰发动了今年规模最大的无人机和导弹空袭之一,造成全国十余人死亡,一百多人受伤。据当地官员称,至少18人(包括一名儿童)死亡,118人受伤。在周四早晨之前的24小时内,俄罗斯共发射了659架无人机和44枚导弹,分多轮袭击了包括首都基辅、哈尔科夫、敖德萨、第聂伯罗和扎波罗热在内的主要城市。乌克兰外交部长安德烈·西比哈指出,此次袭击主要针对平民。在基辅,包括一名12岁男孩在内的四人丧生,另有48人受伤。基辅一家建筑公司表示,导弹在住宅区建筑工地旁爆炸,导致工人受伤。在敖德萨,一栋住宅楼先是被无人机击中,随后又遭到弹道导弹袭击,导致至少8人死亡。此外,敖德萨国立音乐学院的一座宿舍楼也严重受损。紧急服务部门正在各地废墟中展开搜救。
Russia launched one of its largest barrages of drones and missiles on Ukraine this year, killing more than a dozen and wounding more than 100 people across the country, Ukrainian authorities said Thursday.
At least 18 people, including a child, were killed and 118 wounded across the country as Russian strikes damaged buildings and sparked fires, according to local authorities and the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.
Russia launched 659 drones and 44 missiles in the 24 hours before Thursday morning, the Ukrainian Air Force said, in waves of attacks on major cities including the capital Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa, Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia.
“Over the past day and night, Russia carried out a massive terrorist attack against Ukraine with almost 700 drones, dozens of ballistic and cruise missiles. The attack primarily targeted civilians,” Andrii Sybiha, Ukrainian Foreign Minister said in a post on X Thursday.
In Kyiv, four people were killed, including a 12-year-old boy whose body was among two found in the rubble of a destroyed building, the State Emergency Service said. At least 48 people were wounded, it added.
The CEO of a construction company in Kyiv said a strike was so close that it “effectively detonated right next to the construction site” of a residential complex, injuring six workers including two in a serious condition who are undergoing surgery.
At least eight people were killed in Odesa, where video posted by the State Emergency Service, shows a fire engulfing a building and response teams carrying one casualty on a stretcher. All the deaths occurred in the same residential building, which was first targeted by a drone, killing one person, before being struck by a ballistic missile, resulting in the further fatalities.
An administrative leader at the Odesa National Music Academy, a higher education music academy in the city, said that one of the halls in a dormitory was badly damaged.
“In the middle of the night, all students were evacuated to the academy’s premises; unfortunately, five students were injured and have received medical treatment in the city’s hospitals,” she wrote on Facebook, alongside images of the damaged sleeping quarters strewn with debris and shattered glass.
Three people were killed and 34 wounded in attacks on Dnipro in central Ukraine, and at least one person was killed in Zaporizhzhia, in the southeast, according to local authorities and the State Emergency Service.
“Such attacks cannot be normalized. These are war crimes that must be stopped and their perpetrators held to account,” Sybiha said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the attack caused fatalities in Odesa, Kyiv, and Dnipro as he condemned Russia as “betting on war.”
“Another night has proven that Russia does not deserve any easing of global policy or lifting of sanctions,” he said.
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