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At least 25 people were injured after a Russian strike hit an educational institution in Ukraine’s Rivne on Tuesday, local authorities said.
Police said two people who are in a serious condition are undergoing surgery, while three more people were being treated by medical staff.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said five ballistiv missiles also hit civilian infrastructure in the country’s capital Kyiv, adding that Ukraine received no early warning from its partners about the attack.
Zelenskyy characterised the barrage on the capital as “particularly vile,” and emphasised that receiving intelligence from Ukraine’s partners on such ballistic missile attacks “helps save lives, and this is one of the most critical issues.”
“This is precisely what helps prevent people from being killed — when there is an early warning about ballistic missiles,” he wrote. He did not apportion blame for the lack of warning.
Strikes on Kharkiv kill 4, injure 41
Zelenskyy said that in addition to four deaths in a strike on an apartment building in Kharkiv, 41 people were wounded in the city in one evening alone.
A woman was wounded in a Russian strike on a private home in Kyiv’s Darnytskyi district, the Kyiv city military administration said, while a Russian drone hit a residential building in the village of Murovane, near the western city of Lviv, during a morning attack Tuesday, Lviv Mayor Andrii Sadovyi said.
One person was killed in the Fastiv district of the Kyiv region and at least two others were hurt in a Russian attack on the area, said Tymur Tkachenko, head of the regional military administration.
Russia’s war in Ukraine hasn’t seen major shifts on the ground since last year, but Ukraine is struggling to fend off Moscow’s intensified aerial attacks on cities that include speedy ballistic missiles and high-flying jet-powered drones.
Zelenskyy said Russia had attacked Ukraine with more than 100 weapons since Monday evening. Among the damage was a residential building in the northeastern city of Kharkiv that was destroyed, killing four people despite an all-night rescue operation, he said.
Russia has increasingly used attacks on civilian infrastructure such as energy facilities to deny Ukrainians power, heat and running water during the 4 1/2-year war, hoping to wear down public support for Ukraine’s response to Moscow’s full-scale invasion.
Tuesday’s strikes came ahead of a key summit of the European Council in Brussels on Friday, 16 October, where Zelenskyy is expected to attend.
Additional sources • AP