Rockets and missiles continue to pound Ukrainian towns amid fears of renewed Russian offensive
have buried a four-year-old girl who was killed by a Russian missile strike in the city of Vinnytsia last week, as officials and analysts warned that Moscow’s operational pause of recent days had come to an end, signalling further death and pain to come.
Lying in a hospital bed, with a video of her daughter visible on her phone, she told reporters: “The world doesn’t care. It sees what is happening but it does not protect us. How many times have we asked to close the sky? And the world just looks at how Ukraine is being murdered. Our children are being murdered, our soldiers and our people.
“It’s clear that no Russian missiles or artillery will be able to break our unity or lead us away from our path toward a democratic, independent Ukraine,” he said in his nightly video address to the nation on Saturday. “And it is also clear that Ukrainian unity cannot be broken by lies or intimidation, fakes or conspiracy theories.”, including missiles fired from strategic bombers over the Caspian Sea.
The British defence ministry said on Sunday that Russia was reinforcing its defensive positions across the areas it occupied in southern Ukraine after pressure from Ukrainian forces and pledges from Ukrainian leaders to force out Russia.
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