The death toll from the missile strike on Kryvyi Rih has risen to four
In Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, the death toll from a rocket strike carried out by Russian forces the day before has risen. Four people are now known to have died in the attack.
According to him, another victim of the shelling died overnight.
“Despite the fact that doctors fought to the very end to save her life, the 62-year-old woman died from multiple life-threatening injuries,” Vilkul noted.
The number of wounded has also increased. According to the latest data, 27 people were injured in the rocket attack. In the evening, the parents of a four-year-old child sought medical attention.
As of this morning, 17 victims remain in the city’s hospitals.
“As of this morning, 17 people are in the city’s hospitals, including 1 in very serious, critical condition; 1 in very serious condition; and 2 in serious but stable condition,” reported the head of the City Defense Council.
In light of the tragedy, today has been declared a day of mourning in Kryvyi Rih for those killed in the Russian missile strike.
Local authorities are calling on residents to honor the memory of the attack’s victims and to follow safety precautions during air raid alerts.
This was announced by Oleksandr Vilkul, chairman of the Kryvyi Rih Defense Council.
Over the past 24 hours, Russian troops carried out 1,021 strikes on 38 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region. As of June 24, one person was killed and 12 others were wounded in Zaporizhzhia and surrounding districts as a result of the attacks.
As a reminder, drones struck 193 Russian trucks near occupied Crimea over the course of five days.
Earlier, on June 16, the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don handed down sentences to two Ukrainian prisoners of war from the “Azov” battalion, sentencing them to 17 and 20 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Russia has handed down yet another round of sentences to Ukrainian prisoners of war. The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced six defenders of Ukraine to terms ranging from 12 to 19 years in a strict-regime penal colony.
