(Kyiv) A woman and an eight-month-old infant were found on Sunday in the rubble of the building hit overnight from Friday to Saturday by a Russian drone in Odessa, raising the death toll to ten, authorities said on Sunday. Ukrainians.
This attack on a nine-story building in this port city on the Black Sea resulted in “the deaths of ten people, including three children,” lamented Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“Marc: who was not even three years old yet; Elizaveta: eight months; and Timothy: four months,” he listed on Telegram. “Ukrainian children are Russia’s military targets,” he denounced.
Earlier on Sunday, the regional governor, Oleg Kiper, indicated that a woman had been found and her baby “next door”, bringing the death toll from the Russian attack to ten dead.
The mother and baby “were found pressed together,” Ukrainian emergency services said on Telegram.
However, the authorities did not report the number of injured, although emergency services had mentioned eight injured confirmed Saturday evening.
Volodymyr Zelensky said that “five people” had already been rescued, but that children “could” still be found under the rubble. “Search operations are continuing,” he added.
“Today, Odessa and the region mourn the victims of the Russian attack,” Mr. Kiper also indicated in a separate message on Telegram, evoking “great pain” for “all of Ukraine”.
On Saturday, Volodymyr Zelensky castigated in his daily speech Russian “terror” which “aims exclusively to destroy lives, to intimidate”.
PHOTO OLEKSANDR GIMANOV, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
View of the building hit by a Russian drone on March 2 in Odessa
At the same time, he once again called on Kyiv’s Western allies to deliver more, and more quickly, munitions – which Kyiv is sorely lacking -, air defense systems and combat planes to repel the Russian army.
“Delays in arms deliveries to Ukraine […] lead, unfortunately, to such losses,” he said, referring to the deadly Russian strike on Odessa.
Elsewhere in Ukraine, “one person was killed and three others injured” on Sunday in the Kherson region following Russian attacks, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry said on Telegram.
Five other people were injured overnight from Saturday to Sunday in two Russian bombings in the Donetsk region (East), according to the Ukrainian regional prosecutor’s office.
In the area of Avdiïvka (East), a town conquered in mid-February by the Russian army, Ukrainian general Oleksandr Tarnavsky assured Sunday that the situation was “stabilizing”. “ [Celle-ci] remains complicated but under control.”