Ukraine strikes kill two children after Russia's deadly mall attack
Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – A Ukrainian drone attack on Saturday hit a house in southern Russia, killing two children and injuring their parents, officials said, while a daytime ballistic missile attack by Russia killed two outside the capital Kyiv.
"This morning, civilian infrastructure and residential buildings in the Yeysk district came under a drone attack," said Veniamin Kondratyev, the governor of Russia's southern Krasnodar region.
"As a result of yet another vile and cynical strike ... two children were killed, and two adults are in the hospital," he added.
A separate Ukrainian drone attack on the central region of Samara killed one person, the local governor said.
Around lunchtime on Saturday, Russia fired ballistic missiles towards Kyiv, the Ukrainian air force said -- killing two and wounding eight in the Boryspil district, on the eastern edge of the capital.
Overnight Russian attacks had already killed two -- one in Kyiv and one in Zaporizhzhia, close to the front line.
The strikes marked the latest escalation in the four-and-a-half-year conflict.
The United Nations reported that the civilian death toll so far this year had risen to its highest level since the first months of the war.
On Monday, Ukraine and its top European allies will host a virtual meeting to look at how to pressure Russia to end its war.
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This is the kind of rhetoric that both sides use to reinforce the undisputable fact that the enemy is cruel.
It's kind of fascinating to behold the hatred they have towards each other from a third-party perspective, and how tunnel-vision'ed they are. With this rhetoric there doesn't seem to be a desire to end the war, only to retaliate to enact revenge on a subjective unjust.
Kudos to Ukraine for managing to keep the civilian casualties to a low, considering the amount of strikes they've made in Russia at this point, and compared to Russian strikes in Ukraine. Alas, civilian casualties are no less serious or sad.
My heart goes out to yet another family who have been hurt for the rest of their lives. May the war end soon.