three dead and around thirty injured in Russian strikes

Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday asked his allies to provide him with more Patriot, an anti-aircraft defense system.

Several Russian strikes left at least three dead and around thirty injured on Wednesday March 27. In Kharkiv, the country’s second city, a Russian bombing left at least one dead and 18 injured, including four children, by hitting civilian targets, local authorities announced. Two others were killed Wednesday in strikes elsewhere in Ukraine.

According to initial information from the general prosecutor’s office, two high-powered bombs, dropped from a plane, damaged residential buildings in Kharkiv, as well as a school and a kindergarten in the middle of the afternoon. Four people had already been injured in nighttime bombings and a drone attack in this region, the same source said earlier.

kyiv asks allies to “accelerate delivery” of combat aircraft

Eight civilians were injured in Mykolaiv, a large city in southern Ukraine, in a ballistic missile attack, according to the town’s mayor. In the occupied town of Gorlivka, in the Donetsk region, a Ukrainian strike also caused the death of a woman in her apartment, according to local authorities.

In this context, Ukraine is asking its Western allies to send it more aid, and faster. President Volodymyr Zelensky once again urged Ukraine’s allies to “speed up delivery” of F-16 fighter jets and to transfer additional Patriot batteries, a powerful and expensive air defense system supplied to Ukraine for the first time in spring 2023.

“There is no rational justification to explain why Patriots, of which there are many around the world, still do not cover the skies of Kharkiv and other cities and towns attacked by Russian terrorists”he added.