President Volodymyr Zelensky on Could 24 visited the Kharkiv printing home destroyed a day earlier in a Russian missile assault that killed seven individuals.
“Yesterday, a Russian missile strike killed seven individuals right here,” he mentioned in a put up on social media, including: “My condolences exit to their households and associates. Twenty-one individuals had been injured.”
“The printing facility was destroyed, and tens of 1000’s of books had been burned. Plenty of kids’s books, instructional supplies, and textbooks.”
In line with regional authorities, Russia used S-300 missiles, fired from inside Russian territory, to strike the manufacturing unit belonging to one of many largest printing services in Ukraine.
“Russian terror mustn’t ever go unpunished. Step-by-step, we be sure that the Russian state bears the implications and prices of its evil,” Zelensky added.
On Could 23, International Minister Dmytro Kuleba once more urged Kyiv’s companions to offer extra Patriot air protection programs within the wake of the strike.
“This heinous assault should remind everybody all over the world that Ukraine nonetheless urgently wants seven ‘Patriot’ programs,” Kuleba mentioned on X, thanking Germany for pledging an extra system final month.