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A 12-year-old woman was amongst 4 killed and no less than 70 injured after a 12-hour Russian drone and missile assault on Ukraine, with the capital Kyiv struggling the heaviest assault.
The air assault, which befell in a single day and into Sunday, was the primary main bombardment since the same assault killed no less than 21 individuals final month.
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the “vile” bombardment that lasted greater than 12 hours and concerned practically 600 drones and a number of other dozen missiles.
Information of the destruction got here as Denmark’s defence ministry stated that it had noticed drones at a number of of its armed forces’ places in a single day for a second consecutive day.
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Nato has stated that it’ll improve its mission within the Baltic Sea following reviews of drone incursions into Denmark.
Colonel Martin O’Donnel, a Nato spokesperson, stated that “we’ll conduct much more enhanced vigilance with new multi-domain belongings within the Baltic Sea area, which incorporates Denmark, below Baltic Sentry”.
He stated Nato leaders had been in fixed contact with Danish leaders concerning the latest drone incidents and that the belongings would come with “a number of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platforms and no less than one air-defence frigate”.
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Individually, Germany stated that following a request from Denmark, its armed forces would supply army assist for the upcoming European Union summit later this week in Copenhagen
In Ukraine, Mr Zelensky stated Zaporizhzhia, Khmelnytskyi, Sumy, Mykolaiv, Chernihiv and Odesa areas have been additionally hit within the renewed Russian assaults.
Zaporizhzhia’s governor Ivan Fedorov stated three youngsters – two boys, aged 11 and 12 and a nine-year-old woman, have been among the many 34 individuals injured within the area.
Ilona Kovalenko, a 38-year-old resident of a five-storey constructing in Kyiv’s Solomianskyi district that was struck, described being woken up by an explosion which shattered home windows.
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She stated that the 12-year-old woman, named Oleksandra, who died within the assault, was her neighbour’s daughter.
“A neighbour stored knocking on our door. She was fully coated in blood and shouting, ‘assist, save my daughter’,” stated Ms Kovalenko, who fled the constructing together with her grandmother after the strike.
“Sadly, she died on the spot,” Ms Kovalenko added. “We’re in shock, to be trustworthy.”
Mr Zelensky vowed that Ukraine “will strike again” and referred to as on the US and Europe to curb their Russian oil and gasoline imports.
Ukraine’s overseas minister Andrii Sybiha responded to the assault, saying: “We should maximise the price of additional escalation for Russia”.
Russia’s defence ministry stated on Sunday that it had carried out a “large” assault on Ukraine utilizing long-range air and sea-based weapons and drones to hit army infrastructure, together with airfields.
The assault additionally triggered army responses in neighbouring Poland, the place fighter jets have been deployed early on Sunday as Russia struck targets in western Ukraine, in accordance with the Polish armed forces.
Reporting contributed by The Related Press and Reuters.
