Russia strikes southern Ukraine city, presses attacks in east
Russian missiles have hit industrial facilities at a strategic city in southern Ukraine as a funeral took place for a 4-year-old girl killed in an earlier strike elsewhere in the country.
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Russian missiles have hit industrial facilities at a strategic city in southern Ukraine as a funeral took place for a 4-year-old girl killed in an earlier strike elsewhere in the country.
Local residents reported seeing a fireball and hearing explosions for two hours after the crash.
In eastern Ukraine's Kramatorsk, a few children still can be seen on mostly empty playgrounds as artillery sounds in the distance against Russian invaders.
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Ukrainian officials are once again accusing Russian forces of intentionally attacking civilians. The Kremlin denies those claims. Officials say Russian missiles hit two universities and infrastructure facilities in Mykolaiv on Friday. Ukraine also says on Thursday, a residential area with a medical facility and office building in Vinnytsia was hit. CBS News Foreign Correspondent Holly Williams explains why these recent attacks have sparked a renewed call for more help from the West.
Russian missiles struck civilian buildings in Vinnytsia killing at least 23 people. As Holly Williams reports, the Ukrainian minister amounts this action to "terrorism".
"We are formally calling for his captors to release his body and help us repatriate it back to the U.K. for his family," the charity's co-founder said.
Ukraine is again accusing Russia of war crimes after a missile strike killed more than 20 civilians and wounded more than 100 others in Vinnytsia. Children were among the casualties. Holly Williams has more.
Ukrainian officials say nearly two dozen people were killed in a Russian missile attack on the central city of Vinnytsia. Asami Terajima, staff writer for The Kyiv Independent, explains the situation on the ground as Ukraine accuses Russia of "an open act of terrorism" against civilians.
Ukraine's defense chief tells CBS News the strike on the city of Vinnytsia is merely "the next proof" that his country is at war "with a state of terrorists."
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At least 20 people are dead after Russian missiles struck several buildings in the central Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia. Ambassador Oksana Morkarova, the Ukrainian ambassador to the United States, joined CBS News' Anne-Green and Vladimir Duthiers with reaction.
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Meanwhile, Ukraine reported striking a Russian ammunition depot, resulting in a massive explosion.
A 16-year-old Ukrainian has been reunited with his father after he said he was a captive of the Russian military for three months. He said he witnessed Russian guards torturing prisoners and that he was tasked with cleaning the room used for torture. Holly Williams reports.
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A man was pulled from the rubble of an apartment building Sunday in the eastern Ukraine town of Chasiv Yar after it was struck in a Russian rocket attack. Officials said at least 15 people were killed.
Vlad Buriak, 16, paints a grim picture of the 3 months he says he spent as a prisoner of Russia's occupying forces.
At least 15 people were killed when a Russian rocket hit an apartment building in eastern Ukraine and more than 20 people may still be trapped in the rubble, officials said.