The resonance of death from the Russian rocket strike in the center of the Ukrainian city of Kryvya Rih increased to 18, including nine children, said on Saturday the regional governor of Serhia Lysak.
Another 61 people were injured during a Friday attack, from a three -month -old child to older residents. Forty people remain hospitalized, including two children in a critical condition and 17 in serious condition.
“There can never be forgiveness,” said Oleksandr Vilkul, head of the City Defense Council. “Eternal memory for victims.”
Kryvyi Rih is the hometown of the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
“The bullet hit the area next to residential buildings – hitting the playground and ordinary streets,” wrote Zelenskyy on a telegram.
Local authorities have announced that the strike was damaged by about 20 residential buildings, over 30 vehicles, an educational building and a restaurant.
The Russian Ministry of Defense stated on Friday that it had a hit of bullets with a high explosive explosive head in a restaurant where a meeting was held with commanders of Western units and instructors.
The Russian army claimed that the strike was killed by 85 military staff and foreign officers and destroyed 20 vehicles. The army's claims could not be independently verified. Ukrainian general staff rejected the claims.
The later drone strike at Kryvya Rih killed one woman and hurt seven other people.
“Russia only wants war”
Zelenskyy blamed Russia's daily strikes until the end of the war. “Every missile, every drone strike proves that Russia only wants war,” he said, calling for Ukraine's allies to increase pressure on Moscow and strengthen the air defense of Ukraine.
The Ukrainian president also criticized the reaction of the US embassy in Kiev to a strike. Ambassador Bridget A. Brink Posted on social media Friday that she was “terrified” with a strike in Kryvya Rih. “Over 50 people were injured and 16 killed, including 6 children. That's why the war must end,” said the post.
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Zelenskyy, who until now had tense relations with the US President Donald Trump, described this post as “unpleasant surprising” that without calling Russia as the perpetrator of the attack.
“Such a strong country, such a strong people – and such a poor reaction. They are even afraid to say the word” Russian “, talking about a missile that killed children,” he said in a position that also praised countries, including Japan, Great Britain, Switzerland and Germany.
“Yes, the war must end. But to end it, we can't be afraid to call ourselves a spatula of art,” he said.
The Russian forces introduced 92 drones to Ukraine overnight, with 51 shot down by air defense, Ukrainian Air Force wrote in social media on Saturday. He said that another 31 lures did not achieve their goals.
Elsewhere, one person died on Saturday in the occupied Russian city of Horlivka in the Donetsk region of Ukraine because of the fire, said the Governor Denis Pushilin. Security officials told Russian information channels that they destroyed 28 Ukrainian drones over the Donetsk region overnight, indicating that the occupied territory was attacked by such long -range strikes.