After at least 12 killed in strike south of Kyiv, Zelensky slams Russian ‘terrorism’

Russian missiles strike the city of Vinnytsia, killing 12 people and wounding 25 more in what Ukraine’s president calls “an open act of terrorism” on the country’s civilian population in areas with no military value.

Ukraine’s national police say three missiles hit an office building and damaged nearby residential buildings in the city located southwest of the capital Kyiv. The missile strike ignited a fire that expanded to engulf 50 cars in an adjacent parking lot.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says a child was among the dead. He suggests the attack was deliberately aimed at terrorizing civilians.

“Every day Russia is destroying the civilian population, killing Ukrainian children, directing missiles at civilian objects. Where there is no military (targets). What is it if not an open act of terrorism?” Zelenskyy writes on the Telegram messaging app.

The Vinnytsia strike came after Ukraine’s presidential office reported the deaths of five civilians and the wounding of another eight in Russian attacks over the past day.