Ukraine updates: Russia hits Kyiv, Dnipro after BRICS event – DW – 10/26/2024
October 26, 2024
Russian overnight airstrikes target hospital, apartments
Ukraine was subjected to a night of Russian missile and drone strikes that witnesses and authorities say lasted nearly 8 hours.
In all, at least six people were killed — including women and children — and dozens more were injured as Russian forces attacked the capital Kyiv, the central city of Dnipro, and a village in the Kherson region.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fumed on social media, posting images of burning and bombed-out buildings on X, formerly Twitter. Zelenskyy, referencing the BRICS summit hosted by Russian President Vladimir Putin posted: “After everything said in Kazan, Russian murderers have resumed their usual business.”
“In Dnipro,” Zelenskyy wrote, “one of Ukraine’s most important hospitals, the Mechnikov Hospital, was damaged, along with ordinary residential buildings. Tragically, three people were killed, including a child.”
“This war has continued for three years now,” the Ukrainian leader added, “and there is only one culprit—Moscow.”
Friday’s strikes came less than 48 hours after fellow world leaders urged Putin to end his war of aggression, which began with Russia’s February 24, 2022 invasion.
js/rmt (AFP, AP, Reuters, dpa)