CHERNIHIV, Ukraine – Seven individuals together with a 6-year-old woman had been killed, 144 wounded, and 41 had been in hospital after a Russian missile struck a central sq. within the historic northern Ukrainian metropolis of Chernihiv on Saturday, Ukrainian officers mentioned.
“I am sure our soldiers will give a response to Russia for this terrorist attack,” President Volodymyr Zelenskiy mentioned in his nightly video handle, delivered early on Sunday on the finish of a go to to Sweden. “A notable response.”
He mentioned that of the 144 individuals injured, 15 had been kids, and named the woman killed as Sofia. Fifteen others had been law enforcement officials, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko mentioned on Telegram. Klymenko mentioned many of the victims had been in automobiles, crossing the highway, or getting back from church.
Regional governor Viacheslav Chaus mentioned 41 individuals had been in hospital on Saturday.
Zelenskiy mentioned the strike on Chernihiv, a metropolis of leafy boulevards and centuries-old church buildings about 145 km (90 miles) north of Kyiv, coincided with the Orthodox vacation of the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord.
Debris was scattered throughout a sq. in entrance of the broken theater and surrounding buildings, the place parked automobiles had been closely broken. A 63-year-old who solely gave her first title, Valentyna, confirmed the broken balcony in her condominium reverse the theatre.
“It is horrific. Horrific. There were wounded, ambulances and broken glass in here. Nightmare. Just nightmare,” she mentioned.
The roof of the neoclassical theater was torn off by the strike.
Russia has attacked Ukrainian cities removed from the frontline with missiles and drones as a part of the full-scale invasion that started in February 2022.
People leaving church and others passing by had been amongst these harm when the missile hit the theater, the place a gathering was happening, Chaus mentioned.
Law enforcement companies had been wanting into how Russians turned conscious of the occasion, which he mentioned included business and group representatives however Ukrainian media reported concerned drone producers. Both sides have broadly used drones on the battlefield.
An occasion organizer mentioned all of the individuals, together with engineers, members of the navy and volunteers, had been requested to go to an air raid shelter within the theatre when the alarm sounded, however some individuals went exterior.
“All those who took shelter remained safe,” Maria Berlinska, a co-founder of the Dignitas Fund, whose fundraising consists of cash for drones for the frontline, mentioned in a Facebook publish.
A wounded lady mentioned her good friend pulled her out of one of many broken buildings after part of the ceiling fell on her head.
The streets had been stained with blood trails and strewn with scraps from first-aid provides that had been used to deal with the wounded. —Reuters
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