A Russian ballistic missile strike killed at least four people and wounded another nine in the hometown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of Kryvyi Rig on Wednesday, authorities said.
The strike followed a alluvion of drones during the night in the regions of Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv, who killed one and wounded a dozen others, according to officials.
The head of the Kryvyi Rig Military Administration, Oleksandr Vikul, said Russia attacked civil infrastructure with a ballistic missile, causing a great fire, and that a rescue operation was underway.
An unseeding video of the social networks of the scene showed fire and smoke coming out of a damaged industrial building and debris out there.
“The death toll in Kryvyi Rig has increased to four,” said Dnipropetrovsk regional governor Sergiy Lysak. Among the wounded there were a woman and men of 29 years of 35 and 41, he added.
Russia and Ukraine have intensified air attacks even when the president of the United States, Donald Trump, pushes the Kremlin and kyiv to accept a high fire after more than three years of expensive fighting.
Earlier on Wednesday, a 45 -year -old man was killed when a Russian strike hit cars parked outside a house in Zaporizhzhia, said the head of the military administration of the Ukrainian region, Ivan Federov, on Telegram.
In Kharkiv, five people were injured in drone strikes, said Kharkiv Regional State Administration, Oleg Synegbov.
A AFP The journalist saw firefighters who manifested the smoke of a building in Jharkiv, where a fire was furious and the black smoke scored from the windows.
Zelensky said that Russia had launched 74 drones in total in objectives in Ukraine. The “systemic” Russian attacks, he added, showed that the Kremlin “despises diplomatic efforts” to stop war.
“Putin does not even want to guarantee a high partial fire. What is needed is a new and tangible pressure on Russia to put this war on a path to the end,” he added.
