By Ivana Kottasová, Kostya Gak, NCS
(NCS) — Three toddlers and their father have been killed in a Russian drone strike in jap Ukraine that additionally injured their pregnant mom and their grandmother, native emergency companies stated.
The household was in search of security within the city of Bohodukhiv, some 60 kilometers (38 miles) west of Kharkiv, having fled their dwelling additional east simply days in the past, Ukrainian police stated in an announcement posted on Telegram.
Volodymyr Belyi, the city’s mayor, stated the strike was a “crime that is beyond human comprehension.”
“We lost the most precious thing we had – our future. Three little angels: two one-year-old boys and a two-year-old girl,” he stated in an announcement.
He stated the youngsters’s father, who was 34, died within the strike, whereas their mom and grandmother have been “fighting for their lives” in hospital.
Police stated the mom, who’s 35 weeks pregnant, suffered head wounds and burns. The dwelling the place the household was staying was “completely destroyed” within the strike and subsequent fireplace, they added.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky stated the assault confirmed Russia was not critical about peace.
“Each such Russian strike undermines confidence in everything that is being done diplomatically to end this war,” he stated in an announcement on Telegram.
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