- Russia targeted the Ukrainian capital on the night of Wednesday to Thursday, leaving 24 dead and many injured.
- A nine-story residential building collapsed.
- The Ukrainian president visited the site this Friday to observe a day of mourning.
Volodymyr Zelensky paid tribute to the dozens of victims of a violent Russian attack perpetrated on the night of Wednesday May 13 to Thursday May 14. This affected a dozen districts of kyiv and its region, leaving 47 injured and 24 dead, including three children. This toll could rise further since emergency services are still working this Friday to clear the rubble of a collapsed building in the Darnytskyi district.
The Ukrainian president went there to honor the memory of the victims. “I send my sincere condolences to all those who have lost family members and loved ones to this barbaric terror,”
he wrote on X. “The world must remember the price Ukraine pays every day so that Russian aggression does not spread to other nations”
he added.
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, during that evening, Russia targeted Ukraine with 675 drones and 56 Russian missiles, of which 652 and 41 respectively were shot down by the defense. This attack came 48 hours after the end of a three-day ceasefire established to celebrate the end of the Second World War.
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Damage was recorded on more than “twenty sites across the city”,
notably civil infrastructure, declared Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday. Stating that a missile “literally razed a residential building, from the first to the ninth floor”
. At the same time, a UN vehicle was also hit by Russian drones in the south of the country, without causing any injuries. “The Russians could not have ignored which vehicle they were targeting”
denounced the Ukrainian leader.
