Russia killed three generations of a family – including a one-year-old baby – as Vladimir Putin unleashed his vengeance for Ukrainian strikes that destroyed his strategic bomber aircraft.
The attack came just hours after Donald Trump spoke with Putin. The US President said the Russian leader ‘very strongly’ told him that Russia will retaliate for Ukraine’s weekend drone attacks on four air bases.
The US assesses the attack hit as many as 20 Russian warplanes, destroying around 10 of them, according to two officials – a figure that is about half the number estimated by Zelensky but was still humiliating to Moscow.
Putin kept to his word that Russia would hit back, launching devastating strikes on civilians in Chernihiv and Kharkiv, as Ukraine’s President Zelensky warned that the despot ‘feels impunity’ and ‘is showing the middle finger to the entire world’.
At least six people were killed and six more wounded in hospital after last night’s onslaught by Russia in Pryluky, regional governor Viacheslav Chaus said.
According to him, six Shahed-type drones struck residential areas of the eastern city early Thursday morning, causing severe damage to residential buildings.
Among the dead were a woman, 46, her daughter, 26, and grandson, 16 months, who police said were found under rubble.
Hours later, seventeen people were wounded in a Russian drone strike on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv early Thursday, including children, a pregnant woman, and a 93-year-old woman, according to regional authorities.
