Ukraine under fire as Russian missiles target residential areas, schools and industrial facility

UMAN, UKRAINE - 2023/04/30: People stand near destroyed house that was damaged as a result of a missile attack by the Russian army in Uman. On April 28, the Russian army launched massive missile strikes on Ukraine. As a result of the shelling of the city of Uman, a rocket hit a residential building. 23 people died, including 6 children. 19 people were injured. (Photo by Sergei Chuzavkov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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Important Takeaways:

  • 34 Casualties as Russian Missiles Rain Down on Ukrainian Civilians in Early Morning Raid
  • Eighteen cruise missiles were fired in total from the Murmansk region and the Caspian region, and 15 of them were intercepted, said Ukrainian Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi.
  • The attack follows Friday’s launch of more than 20 cruise missiles and two explosive drones at Ukraine, which was the first to target Kyiv in nearly two months.
  • In Monday’s attack, missiles hit Pavlohrad, in the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, wounding 34 people, including five children, according to Serhii Lysak the region’s top official.
  • Seven missiles shot at the city and “some were intercepted” but others hit an industrial facility, sparking a fire, and a residential neighborhood where 19 apartment buildings, 25 homes, six schools and five shops were damaged, he said.
  • Missiles also hit three other areas in the region, damaging residential buildings and a school, he said.
  • Ukraine has also been building up its mechanized brigades with armor supplied by its Western allies, who have also been training Ukrainian troops and sending ammunition, as Kyiv prepares for an expected counteroffensive this spring.
  • On Saturday, two Ukrainian drones hit a Russian oil depot in Crimea in the latest attack on the annexed peninsula as Ukraine gears up for its counteroffensive
  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an interview last week that his country would seek to reclaim the peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014 in the upcoming counteroffensive.

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