Russian missile shots on the distant areas of fronts are increasing, causing the condemnations of Westerners.
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The video was taken at 9:38 a.m., on the return from a session with the speech therapist. She shows a laughing and carefree little girl, barely higher than her stroller, alongside her mother, smiling. Two hours later, a photo of the mutilated body of Liza, 4, recognizable by her white pants, her little denim jacket and her blue sneakers, not far from a torn foot, went around social networks and became the symbol of this new day of horror in Ukraine. The mother’s mother is in the hospital in serious condition.
Vinnytsia was struck by Russian missiles on Thursday, July 14. The videos show a spectacle that has become recurrent for almost five months of war: thick black smoke in the sky, charred buildings and rescuers evacuating body and wounded in the middle of panicked passers -by. The city of more than 370,000 inhabitants, located 268 kilometers southwest of kyiv, was a safe area for tens of thousands of Ukrainian displaced people who fled the regions exposed to fighting.
According to local authorities, a medical clinic, shops, offices and 36 residential buildings were affected or destroyed by two Kalibr cruise missiles drawn from a Russian ship in the Black Sea. The governor of the Vinnytsia region, Serhiy Borzov, said that the Ukrainian air defenses had shot two of the four missiles. Just under twenty-four hours after the bombing, the record is heavy. Ukrainian authorities say that at least 23 people, including three children under the age of 10, were killed.
More than a hundred were injured, including 66 hospitalized. Among them, five are in critical condition and 34 seriously injured. For the moment, according to the chief of the national police, only six bodies have been identified. Thirty-nine people are always missing. For several weeks, Russian strikes on civil zones have been increasingly deadly. The city of Kreterchouk, in the center of the country, also seemed to be in a safe area until a Russian strike targets a shopping center on June 27, killing more than twenty people.
“Terrorist State”
During the night of June 30, a residential building in the Odessa region was ravaged by missile fire, which killed 21 people. Sunday, July 10, in the Oblast de Donetsk, a bombing on a building in the city of Chasiv Yar left 48 dead, according to the last count of the authorities. Russia, as usual since the start of the war, repeats that it did not target civilian targets. “Russia only strikes military targets in Ukraine. The shot on Vinnytsia has targeted a residence of officers, where preparations for the Ukrainian armed forces were underway,” said Evgeny Varganov, member of the Russia’s permanent mission to Russia of the United Nations (UN).
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