Russian missile kills five, wounds 50 in east Ukraine

A Russian missile attack Tuesday on the Ukrainian city of Izyum, briefly occupied by Russia in 2022, killed five people and wounded more than four dozen others, officials said.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said after the attack that it was "impossible to reconcile with this cruelty" and urged allies to pile pressure on Moscow to end its invasion.
Oleg Synegubov, governor of the wider Kharkiv region bordering Russia, said 50 people had been wounded in the Russian strike, including a 15-year-old girl.
Images distributed by rescue workers showed a woman crying over body bags lined up in a row, a gaping hole in a damaged building and blood stains on debris.
Zelensky said the city council building had been damaged in the attack while Synegubov earlier said a five-storey residential building was hit.
"We need to put pressure on Russia, use as much force as possible -- the force of arms, the force of sanctions, the force of diplomacy -- to stop the terror and protect lives," Zelensky wrote on social media.
Izyum, which had a population of around 45,000 people before the Russian invasion launched in February 2022, was occupied for several months at the beginning of the war before being retaken by Ukrainian forces later that year.
Russian forces are making gains in the region and undoing the advances Kyiv's army made in their 2022 counteroffensive while stepping up bombardments.
The town lies some 40 kilometres (25 miles) from the front line.
Comments