Five Children Among 28 Killed in Russian Strikes on Ukraine

Russian attacks across Ukraine on Wednesday killed at least 28 people, including five children who died when a missile slammed into an apartment block in the north of the country as they slept. 

Windows shattered in the powerful blast in Pryluky, in the Chernigiv region, reducing half of the five-storey building to a smoking pile of charred concrete and twisted metal. 

President Volodymyr Zelensky said three of the dead were just 12 months old while another was aged eight. Another child's body



was pulled from the rubble in the evening, the interior ministry said.

Ukrainian authorities said that 20 people were killed in the Pryluky strike. Seven other children were among dozens wounded, Zelensky said, accusing Russia of knowingly striking "ordinary cities, ordinary life". 

"The continued use of missiles against Ukraine, against our people, our children, is an absolutely deliberate choice of terror," he said. "We were at home, sleeping," Olena Sayun, a 40-year-old massage therapist, told Media.