3 killed, over 30 injured in Russia's attack on Kryvyi Rih.

Russia's missile attack on a five-story building in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast's Kryvyi Rih left at least three killed and 25 wounded, regional governor Serhii Lysak reported[1] on June 13. According to Lysak, 19 out of 25 injured civilians have to be taken to the hospital. Air raid alerts were activated all over Ukraine in the early hours on June 13.

Elsewhere in the city, seven people were injured during the same attack that targeted civilian infrastructure. Lysak warned that people might be still trapped under the rubble. "More terrorist missiles, Russian killers continue their war against residential buildings, ordinary cities and people.

Unfortunately, there are dead and wounded," President Volodymyr Zelensky said[2] following the attack, adding that the rescue operation in Kryvyi Rih - his hometown - continues. "My condolences to all those who have lost their loved ones! Terrorists will never be forgiven, and they will be held accountable for every missile they launch," Zelensky concluded.

The General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces said[3] in its morning update that Russian forces used fourteen X-101/555 cruise missiles, 10 of which were destroyed by Ukraine's air defense. Russia has also  launched four Iranian-made Shahed drones.

Mayor: Russia strikes civilian buildings in Kryvyi Rih A few civilian buildings in central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih were targeted by Russian air strikes overnight on June 13, Mayor Oleksandr Vilkul reported.

[4] Olena Goncharova

Development manager, Canadian correspondent

Olena Goncharova is a development manager and Canadian correspondent for the Kyiv Independent.

She first joined the Kyiv Post, Ukraine's oldest English-language newspaper, as a staff writer in January 2012 and became the newspaper's Canadian correspondent in June 2018. She is based in Edmonton, Alberta. Olena has a master's degree in publishing and editing from the Institute of Journalism in Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv.

Olena was a 2016 Alfred Friendly Press Partners fellow who worked for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for six months.

The program is administered by the University of Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia.

References

  1. ^ reported (t.me)
  2. ^ said (t.me)
  3. ^ said (www.facebook.com)
  4. ^ Mayor: Russia strikes civilian buildings in Kryvyi RihA few civilian buildings in central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih were targeted by Russian air strikes overnight on June 13, Mayor Oleksandr Vilkul reported. (kyivindependent.com)