Three children among dead and up to 50 injured after rockets hit civilian buildings in Ukrainian city
Russian missiles have struck civilian buildings and a cultural centre in the city of Vinnytsia, in central Ukraine, killing at least 20 people – including three children – and wounding up to 50 others in what PresidentThe attack on Vinnytsia, far from the war’s frontlines, occurred in mid morning when the streets were full of people. It appeared to have hit a business centre, setting cars on fire and sending plumes of thick black smoke over the city.
“The simple truth is that, as we speak, children, women and men, the young and the old, are living in terror,” the ICC prosecutor, Karim Khan, said as he opened a Ukraine accountability conference in The Hague. Zelenskiy said: “Every day Russia destroys civilian population, kills Ukrainian children and directs rockets at civilian targets where there is nothing military. What is this if not an open act of terrorism? It is a killer state. A terrorist state.”
Video footage posted on social media showed the roof blown off the House of Officers and a scorched multistorey building opposite – identified as the Yuvileny business centre – with restaurants and other businesses on the ground floor also badly damaged.Footage also showed a damaged pushchair on the pavement in an area scattered with large fragments of metal.
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