According to local authorities, a 10-year-old girl and her 45-year-old mother were among the dead in Kryvyi Rih. Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said the attacks on Monday morning hit several floors of a nine-story apartment building and a university building.
President Zelenskyy published a video showing the destroyed buildings and the deployment of rescue workers. “In the past few days, the enemy has repeatedly (…) attacked civilian objects and residential buildings,” he wrote on the online network Twitter, which was renamed “X”. He accused Russia of practicing “terror”.
Four people were killed and 17 others injured in Russian attacks in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, according to the chief of staff of the Ukrainian presidential office, Andriy Yermak. “The enemy is hitting residential areas,” Yermak explained.
For their part, Russian authorities reported four dead and ten wounded in a Ukrainian rocket attack on the city of Donetsk in the partially Russian-held region in the east of the country. The attack hit the city center, Moscow-appointed Donetsk Prime Minister Denis Puschilin said on Telegram. A bus was destroyed.
Another person was killed in Ukrainian shelling of the nearby town of Horlivka, according to Russian authorities. Three people were killed and 15 injured in an attack on a Russian-occupied village in the Zaporizhia region.
In a Ukrainian drone attack in Trubchevsk in western Russia, a police station was also hit, regional governor Alexander Bogomas said on Telegram. People were not injured, but the roof and windows of the station were destroyed.
On Sunday, Russia said it shot down three Ukrainian drones in the capital Moscow. Two office buildings were damaged and one airport had to be closed for a short time. “The war is gradually returning to the territory of Russia – to its symbolic centers and military bases,” Zelensky said later during a visit to the western Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk. “Ukraine is getting stronger.” At the same time, he warned of new Russian attacks on the Ukrainian energy infrastructure in the coming winter.
Moscow is around 500 kilometers from the Ukrainian border. The urban area and the surrounding area of the Russian capital had only rarely been targeted since the start of the Ukraine war. Recently, however, there have been several drone attacks on Moscow, for which Russian authorities blamed Ukraine.
In response to the Ukrainian attacks, Russia says it has increased its targeting of military facilities in Ukraine. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu also announced on Monday “additional steps” to improve “defense against air and sea attacks”.
At the same time, Defense Minister Shoigu assured that the long-prepared Ukrainian counteroffensive that has been underway since the beginning of June was “unsuccessful” and “failed”. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov described the drone strikes on Moscow as “acts of desperation” by Ukraine.
