At least 14 people were wounded overnight on Wednesday in another large-scale Russian missile and drone attack on Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Wednesday.
The injured in the attack on the city of Okhtyrka in Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy region, included a family with a baby and two small children, Zelenskyy added.
“Russia continues to manifest its fears through acts of pure terrorism across Ukraine, once again targeting the homes of families and their sleeping children,” Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko wrote on X.
The strike targeted a residential neighbourhood, damaging thirteen private homes, Svyrydenko added.
Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched 93 drones and an undisclosed number of missiles, of which 62 drones and one missile were shot down. They reported that 20 locations in total were struck.
“(Air attacks) also targeted the Chernihiv, Kharkiv, and Poltava regions,” Zelenskyy said.
The Ukrainian leader also reported that Moscow struck a gas distribution station in the Odesa region in yet another attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, which Russia has intensified in recent months.
“All of these are demonstrative strikes that only confirm the need to put pressure on Moscow, the need to impose new sanctions and tariffs until diplomacy is fully effective,” Zelenskyy said on X.
“We need strong security guarantees to ensure a truly reliable and lasting peace,” he concluded.
Earlier this week, Zelenskyy met with US President Donald Trump, alongside European leaders, in the White House in an attempt to secure a peace deal and end Russia’s war of aggression.
Last Friday, Trump met with Vladimir Putin in Alaska, and had later announced the Russian president was open to the idea of security guarantees for Ukraine.
