After a Russian missile hit his apartment building in Uman, Ukraine, Dmytro rushed to the room where his two children were sleeping. He found no room behind the door, only a cloud of fire and smoke. By the end of the day, he and his wife, Inna, had not found their children Kyrylo, 17, or Sophia, 11. The attack, which occurred before dawn on Friday, was Russia’s first widespread aerial assault in over a month against Ukrainian civilian targets, killing at least 25 people, officials said. At least 20 people died in the apartment block in Uman, with its front face shorn off by the missile blast. This is the deadliest such attack since January. Russia adopted this pattern last year after its invasion failed to defeat Ukraine militarily, launching large-scale barrages of missiles, rockets, and drones at cities and towns far from the battlefields in the east and south. This campaign is intended partly to…
2023-04-28 16:54:53
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