Nearly 30 dead after a Russian bombing of a residential building in Ukraine

The death toll from the bombings carried out by the Russian army at various points in Ukraine in the early hours of this Friday has risen to 24, including 22 killed by a rocket that hit a residential building in the town of Uman, in the Cherkasy region (center).

According to Cherkasy Governor Igor Taburets, the emergency services, which are still continuing the rescue efforts, have found the remains of five other people among the rubble of several buildings destroyed by Russian missiles.

Taburets released a message on his official account of the Telegram social network expressing regret for the “terrible tragedy” that took place in Cherkasy, and declared a three-day period of official mourning across the region.

For his part, the Interior Minister of Ukraine Igor Klimenko has used the same channel to report that the Russian offensive is a ten residential buildings, and has acknowledged that the work of removing the debris can take all day. The Russian authorities have not yet ruled on what happened.

On the other hand, a woman and a three-year-old child have been killed by Russian bombing of Dnipro (east), according to the city’s mayor, Boris Filatov, who has pointed to “precision strikes” by Russian fighters.

In the capital, Kiev, authorities reported that anti-aircraft fire went into effect and shot down 11 of the missiles and the two unmanned vehicles in what was the first attack on the capital in 52 days. The attacks led to a power outage in a neighborhood and superficial damage to a road.

Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky has denounced “another night of terror” with “missiles and drones”. “There are ten damaged residential buildings in Uman. The entire block of one of them has been destroyed,” he said in a post on his Twitter account, before noting that “evil can be stopped by weapons, and that’s what defenders do. .” “It can be stopped with sanctions. International sanctions must be increased,” he added.