As Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Sweden, a Russian missile strike killed seven people and wounded 90 others in the city center of Chernihiv, the regional capital of the northern Ukrainian province of the same name, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said.
A 6-year-old girl was among the dead, while the wounded included 12 children.
Zelenskyy condemned the attack, which he said hit buildings including a theater and a university.
“This is what a neighborhood with a terrorist state is, this is what we unite the whole world against. A Russian missile hit right in the center of the city, in our Chernihiv,” he wrote on Telegram.
“A square, the polytechnic university, a theater. An ordinary Saturday, which Russia turned into a day of pain and loss.”
Overnight into Saturday, Ukraine’s air force said it shot down 15 out of 17 Russian drones targeting Ukraine’s northern, central, and western regions.
The deputy governor of the western Khmelnytskyi region, Serhiy Tyurin, said two people were wounded and dozens of buildings were damaged by an attack.
In the northwestern Zhytomyr region, a Russian drone attack targeted an infrastructure facility and caused a fire, but no casualties were reported, said Gov. Vitaliy Bunechko.
