“According to preliminary information, twelve people including three children were injured. Two children are in serious condition, ”said the prosecution on Telegram messaging. Earlier in the day, regional governor Vitaly Kim reported, on the same network, nine injuries, including four children aged three to 17 and who, according to him, were “all in serious condition”. Voznesensk is about twenty kilometers as the crow flies from the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Privdennooukraïnsk and some 70 kilometers from Mykolaiv.
The strike hit a residential building and several houses in Voznesensk, which has around 30,000 inhabitants, the state emergency service said on Facebook, posting images of a gutted building. Aged three to 17, “the children are all in serious condition,” Vitaly Kim wrote on Telegram, which said a girl lost an eye in the attack.
Heavy shelling in the Mykolaiv region
The region of Mykolaiv, which regularly undergoes violent Russian bombardments, is close to that of Kherson, almost entirely occupied by Russian troops since Moscow launched its attack on Ukraine at the end of February. “Voznesensk. The terrorist country called Russia hit a residential building,” the head of the Ukrainian presidential administration Andriy Iermak denounced on Telegram. “Our task is to ensure that not only the current generation of Russians are held accountable but also their children and grandchildren. Russia will pay for everything,” he added.
The Ukrainian army also indicated in the morning on Telegram that it had shot down four Russian Kalibr-type cruise missiles near the city of Dnipro (center-east) launched from the Black Sea, using a defense system anti-aircraft S-300. The exiled mayor of Melitopol, a city in the Kherson region occupied by the Russians, Ivan Fedorov, for his part said in the morning on Telegram that the Ukrainians had bombed a Russian military base in this occupied city.