Ukrainian authorities have reported initial casualties sustained during a large-scale Russian missile attack on Monday morning.
A woman was killed just outside the southern city of Kryvyi Rih, hometown of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and at least 24 people, including five children, were injured in the town of Novomoskovsk, just north of the city of Dnipro, according to Ukrainian public broadcaster Suspilne.
“The enemy is viciously attacking peaceful cities,” said Oleksandr Vilkul, mayor of Kryvyi Rih, where more than 20 houses and a shopping center were damaged.
At least four people were injured in Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv , when industrial facilities were hit by four missiles, resulting in a fire, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said on the Telegram messaging app.
Officials from the southeastern Zaporizhzhia city council said that at least five blasts had resulted in at least two injuries. “Missiles hit residential areas,” regional governor Yuriy Malaskho said on Telegram.
Military officials in other cities, including Khmelnytskyi, have also said their cities were under a “massive missile attack” by Russia while air raid sirens sounded in the capital, Kyiv.
Nearly two years into the war that Russia started with a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, both sides are struggling to make significant gains on the frontlines in the east and southeast of Ukraine and have shifted to increased air strikes against each other’s territories.
