A ballistic missile hit a residential building in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih on Tuesday (24), killing one person and injuring 15.
Ukrainian authorities denounced the Christmas Eve attack in the city of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Among the injured, four are in serious condition.
“The monsters directly hit a four-story building with 32 apartments,” wrote the head of the city’s military administration, Oleksandr Vilkul, on Telegram.
A man whose body was pulled from under the rubble could not be resuscitated by doctors, regional governor Serhiy Lysak said.
Vilkul later said a woman was rescued and taken to a hospital after spending four hours amid the rubble.
“While other countries around the world celebrate Christmas, Ukrainians continue to suffer from endless attacks from Russia,” Ukrainian human rights ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets wrote on Telegram.
Governor Lysak posted photographs of rescuers dragging a large pile of debris, retrieving a person covered in dust, and loading them into an ambulance.
Kryvyi Rih is a steel town with a pre-war population of over 600,000.
Its southern outskirts are about 65 km from the nearest Russian-occupied territory, and it has been regularly targeted by Russian missile attacks throughout the war.
Russia says it does not deliberately attack civilians, although thousands have been killed since Moscow launched its invasion in 2022.
Understand the War between Russia and Ukraine
Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 and entered the territory from three fronts: through the Russian border, through Crimea and through Belarus, a country that is a strong ally of the Kremlin. Forces loyal to President Vladimir Putin made significant advances in the first few days, but the Ukrainians managed to maintain control of Kiev, even though the city was also attacked. The invasion was criticized internationally and the Kremlin was the target of economic sanctions from the West.
In October 2024, after thousands of deaths, the war in Ukraine entered what analysts describe as its most dangerous moment yet.
Tensions rose when Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the use of an intermediate-range hypersonic missile during an attack on Ukrainian soil. The projectile carried conventional warheads, but is capable of carrying nuclear material.
The launch took place after Ukraine launched an offensive inside Russian territory using weapons manufactured by Western powers, such as the United States, the United Kingdom and France.
Western intelligence reports that Russia is using North Korean troops in the conflict in Ukraine. Moscow and Pyongyang neither deny nor confirm the report.
President Vladimir Putin, who replaced his defense minister in May, has said that Russian forces are advancing much more effectively — and that Russia will achieve all of its objectives in Ukraine, although he did not elaborate.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he believes Putin’s main goals are to occupy the entire Donbass region, encompassing the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, and to expel Ukrainian troops from Russia’s Kursk region, which they have controlled parts of since August. .
This content was originally published in Ballistic missile hits residential building in Ukraine on the CNN Brasil website.
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