Number of deaths of a Russian attack in Poltava, Ukraine,
At least 14 people, including two children, were killed in a Russian attack that hit a residential building in the center of Ukraine, emergency services reported. It was one of many attacks across the country this weekend.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of attacking the building in Politava at dawn on Saturday, classifying the attack as “another terrorist crime.”
The fighting in Ukraine did not slow down, even with Donald Trump in the White House, which promised a quick ceasefire.
The Ukrainian army continues to be pushed back on the front lines in the east, given the superiority of staff and Russian resources.
Among the victims of the attack on Politava are Olena Yavorska, her husband Dmytro and her nine -year -old daughter Sofia, according to a co -worker from Olena, in a Facebook social network publication.
“Russia killed our colleague and family,” wrote Volodymyr Popereshniuk, coproprit of Nova Poshta, a Ukrainian logistics company where Olena worked. “Olena was a biology teacher, but in 2015 he joined the new Poshta. The Yavorsky family lived on the second floor of the destroyed building. ”
Emergency services and National Police psychologists are providing help to about 200 people, the state emergency service said on Sunday. Search and rescue operations are still running.
However, Ukraine and Russia are exchanging accusations because of a deadly attack against an old internal college in the Russian region of Kursk, where Ukrainian troops have maintained territory after launching a shock foray last summer.
The Ukrainian army stated that the Russian Air Force attacked school in the city of Sudzha with a guided air bomb, killing at least four people when local inhabitants were home to the building. At least 84 people were rescued and four are in serious condition, according to the Ukrainian military, who qualified the attack as a “war crime.”
At the same time, the Russian military responsible for Ukraine for the attack on the school, also classifying it as a “war crime.”
“The launch of enemy missiles from the region [ucraniana] Deu was detected by Russian air defense systems, ”said the Russian military in a statement released this Sunday.
The statement continues accusing Ukraine to use the “provocation” to distract the “world public opinion from atrocities [da Ucrânia]”In a separate area of the Kursk region.
CNN cannot independently verify the allegations of Ukraine and Russia.
The confrontation occurred when the Ukrainian air defenses slaughtered dozens of drones at night, while Russia launched new attacks, according to the Ukrainian Air Force.
In total, the Air Force said it has slaughtered 40 of the 55 drones launched against regions across the country, including the capital Kiev, but added that the Kharkiv and Sumy regions were affected by the “enemy attack.”
Ukrainian energy infrastructures were also targeted in various regions on the night of February 1, the Ukrainian Air Force added.
