Russian missile attacks injure dozens in Ukraine as Zelenskiy calls for more military aid
- 25 November, 09:33
Ukrainian authorities said on Monday said that around 30 people were injured in large-scale Russian attacks on the country’s second and third most populated cities.
Some 23 people were injured during an attack on Ukraine’s second-largest Kharkiv city in the east of the country on Monday morning. Another six civilians were injured in southwest Odessa region on the same day, governor Oleh Kiper said. Civilian infrastructure, namely residential buildings were damaged that was caused by the falling of debris, according to officials. The deputy governor Oleksandr Kharlov said Russia specifically targeted a densely-populated area where there are no military facilities, damaging a school and a university sports hall.
Meanwhile, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Telegram on Monday that Moscow targeted ten Ukrainian regions with about one and a half hundred attack drones, aerial bombs and missiles since yesterday evening. Zelenskiy urged “unwavering” Western support for his country in the form of “pressure, sanctions, blocking the occupiers' access to the components they use to create the tools of this terror” as well as arms aid package for Kyiv. Zelenskiy said his country was becoming a testing ground for Russian missiles, with as much as 500 drones and 20 missiles being launched in the past week.
Earlier, on Sunday Zelenskiy noted the increased Russian attacks with the use of Iranian-made Shaeed kamikaze drones. It should be noted that on Thursday, Russia fired Oreshnik intermediate ballistic missile on Ukraine’s Dnipro in the first case of this missile’s use in any conflict.
