The Ukrainian Interior Ministry reports that it has finished the search and rescue operation at the site of a recent Russian missile strike that hit an apartment block in Uman in central Ukraine.
Photo: Ukraine’s emergency service
The attack on Friday killed 23 people, including six children — three girls and three boys. 18 people sustained injuries; nine of them are currently in the hospital.
One woman is still missing.
17 people were rescued from the rubble.
Photo: National Police of Ukraine
“My sincere condolences to the victims’ families. We will punish this evil. We will not let it grow. We will endure and we will win”, Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klimenko said.
In the evening after the strike, Muscovites brought flowers to the statue of Ukrainian writer Lesya Ukrainka to commemorate the victims of the attack. ASTRA writes that policemen soon appeared on the spot, told the people around the monument to “sod off to Ukraine”, and threw the flowers out. An eyewitness later told OVD-Info that one woman who tried to lay flowers at the monument was arrested.
Photo: ASTRA
In St. Petersburg, local residents brought flowers to the Taras Shevchenko monument, and in Yoshkar-Ola, people laid flowers by the monument to victims of political repressions.
Flowers thrown in the trash near the Lesya Ukrainka monument in Moscow. Photo: SOTA
Russian forces carried out the attack on Uman early Friday morning. Three days of mourning have been announced in the Cherkasy Region, where Uman is located.
The Russian Ministry of Defence claimed that its forces had flown a joint rocket strike against “temporary deployment points of the Ukrainian army’s reserve units”. “All designated targets have been hit. The movement of enemy reserves into combat areas has been prevented”, the Ministry stated in a press release.
