According to reports, more than 800 drones were launched in waves designed to overwhelm the Ukrainian air defenses, and a government building was affected in the capital kyiv for the first time.
Ukrainian authorities said four had been killed, with 44 injured. The air raid sirens continued for 11 hours across the capital and although a majority was killed more than 50 drones and nine missiles reached their targets.
“Again, the attacks had an impact on the houses, a government building, a kindergarten and other civil infrastructure in kyiv and Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Kremenchuk, Kryvyi Rih, Odesa, Sumy Region, Zaporizhzhia – leaving behind the loss, destruction and Grif
The senior aid official said that, with the authorities, the UN and the humanitarian partners had mobilized to provide urgent support for civilians and civil areas where damage has been suffered.
Civilians should never be a target
“Civilians and civil infrastructure are protected by international humanitarian law-they are not a target,” he continued.
The UN children’s funds, Unicefsaid that the news of a baby killed with her young mother during an attack on a building in kyiv was “devastating”. At least another child was injured during attacks on Sumy.
“Ukraine has endured another terrifying attack of attacks which had an impact on several cities. More brutally shortened young lives, ”tweeted the agency.
The attacks occurred after weeks of large -scale diplomacy of the Western allies of the Ukrainian government to negotiate a lasting peace agreement between kyiv and Moscow.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an article on social networks following attacks by which “such murders now, when real diplomacy could already have started a long time ago, are a deliberate crime and an extension of the war”.
Originally published at Almouwatin.com
