Zelensky on Russian missile attack on Christmas: “What could be more inhumane?”
On Christmas morning, Russia deployed more than 70 missiles and 100 drones in a major attack on Ukraine.
The governor of the Kharkiv administrative region, Oleh Synehoebov, said on Telegram that the Russian military carried out at least seven attacks. Among them, Russia launched Kalibr-type cruise missiles from the Black Sea. Several explosions were reported in the cities of Dnipro, Krementshuk, Kryvyi Rih and the western city of Ivano-Frankivsk, but other locations were also bombed. The northeastern city of Kharkiv was one of the hardest hit. The Russians fired a lot of ballistic missiles at Kharkiv. The attacks mainly caused damage to civilian infrastructure and at least four civilians were injured in the process, two of them reportedly in bad shape. A lot of energy infrastructure was also destroyed again by the Russian attacks, forcing Ukrainians to switch to emergency power supplies in several cities.
Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky denounced the inhumane attack on Christmas. “Today (Russian President Vladimir) Putin deliberately chose Christmas for his attack. What could be more inhuman,” Zelensky said on Telegram.
(SR for Tagtik/Source: Reuters - Kyiv Independent- Telegram/Illustration picture: Picture by President of Ukraine licensed under CCO 1.0 via WikiCommons)