KUPIANSK, Ukraine — A Russian missile struck a museum within the middle of the jap Ukrainian metropolis of Kupiansk on Tuesday, killing two girls and wounding 10 different folks, the state emergency service mentioned.
Rescue staff dug by mounds of rubble to retrieve the our bodies after the native historical past museum was hit by what President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s chief of workers and the regional governor mentioned was a Russian S-300 missile.
Anatolii Haivoronskyi, who used to work on the museum, mentioned the museum director had been trapped below the rubble.
“And that’s a [museum] worker,” he mentioned, standing within the rain exterior the devastated constructing and a physique bag on the bottom.
Yulia, a resident who gave no surname, mentioned she had been on the submit workplace when she heard three explosions within the morning assault.
“Civilians are suffering every day… Today’s attack took place at 8:55 a.m., the … museum was hit, and I guess some people were injured or died there. Civilians, not soldiers. There were no weapons there,” she mentioned.
Zelenskiy posted a video of a devastated constructing that had spewed out rubble and particles into the road. Its home windows have been smashed and a piece of the wall and roof was destroyed.
“The terrorist country is doing everything to destroy us completely,” he wrote in a Telegram submit. “Our history, our culture, our people.”
Russia didn’t instantly touch upon the assault. It denies intentionally concentrating on civilians in its full-scale invasion that has killed hundreds of individuals, uprooted tens of millions and flattened buildings in cities, cities and villages throughout Ukraine.
Kupiansk, which had a pre-war inhabitants of 26,000, is a crucial rail hub that was occupied by Russian forces for months after they invaded Ukraine in February, 2022. Ukrainian forces drove them out of Kupiansk final September. — Reuters
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
