Russian airstrikes on Ukraine have increased in recent weeks, in anticipation of a Ukrainian counteroffensive.
At least two people were killed and dozens more were injured in a missile strike on a medical facility in the city of Dnipro on Friday morning.
It is one of the strikes Russia had launched against Ukrainein in recent weeks, as it anticipates a Ukrainian counteroffensive.
Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, shared a video of the destroyed clinic, which showed firefighters on the site and smoke billowing from the structure.
He said: “Russian terrorists confirm their status as fighters against all that is humane and honest”.
Governor Serhiy Lysak, stated that Dnipropetrovsk was subjected to a “massive attack with missiles and drones” on Thursday night.
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He said: “It has been a very difficult night. It was very loud, Dnipro has suffered”.
Firefighters were hacking down trees to get a mounted hose closer to the flames that had enveloped the three-story building.
Hunting For Missing People
Meanwhile, rescue workers were hunting for two missing people among the ruins.
Ukraine says it knocked down 17 missiles and 31 drones launched from Russia overnight.
Several drones and missiles struck sites in Dnipro and Kharkiv, including an oil facility.
Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, was also attacked, with officials reporting that shards of intercepted drones fell on the roof of a shopping center, causing damage to a house and numerous automobiles.
On Friday morning in Russia, a blast destroyed a residential and office building in the southern city of Krasnodar, east of Crimea.
Veniamin Kondratyev, the region’s governor, said, “it was caused by two Ukrainian drones
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“There is some damage to buildings, but critical infrastructure was not damaged. And, most significantly, no one was hurt.
“Overnight, Russia’s Belgorod area, which was the site of an unprecedented incursion from Ukrainian territory earlier this week, was also hit.”
According to its governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, the village of Kozinka was struck more than 130 times.
Mr Gladkov, said, one woman was harmed. He claimed that the Graivoron area, where the incursion occurred, was subject to the most severe attacks.
Violation Of International Humanitarian Law
Kyiv and its Western partners strongly condemned the Kremlin’s attack on central Ukraine, demanding for Russian strikes to be held accountable.
According to a French Foreign Ministry statement, “they are “war crimes” that cannot go unpunished.
“The missile and drone attacks on Kyiv and the Ukrainian districts of Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk once again deliberately targeted civilian sites.
“It is in flagrant violation of international humanitarian law,” he said.
