Ukraine: Video shows ‘last minutes’ of four-year-old girl’s life before Russian missile attack | World News
A 4-year-old girl has been killed and her mother seriously injured after a Russian missile hit a city in central Ukraine.
Another 22 people were killed, including two more children and more than 100 others wounded in the attack on Vinnytsia, 167 miles (268km) southwest of the capital Kyiv.
Ukraine’s Defense Ministry tweeted a video showing the “last minutes” of the life of Lisa Dmitrieva, who has Down syndrome.
“During the Russian terrorist attack on Vinnytsia on July 14, a little girl named Lisa died from the explosion,” it wrote on Twitter.
“Little girl Iryna’s mother was taken to the hospital with a broken leg. Iryna’s social media page chronicles the last minutes of her daughter’s life.”
And on Facebook, a woman claiming to work with the injured mother said: “Today in Vinnytsia, our employee Irisha Dmitrieva and her young daughter were at the center of the shelling.
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“Daughter died on the spot… Ira is in critical condition in intensive care.
“So much grief, so much tears… No strength left…”
Lisa Dmitrieva in a video shot just minutes before she was killed
The trolleys were damaged moments after the Russian attack. Pic: State Emergency Service
Officials said Kalibr cruise missiles fired from a Russian submarine in the Black Sea hit civilian buildings in Vinnytsia.
Regional Governor Serhiy Borzov said Ukrainians The air defenses shot down two of the four missiles launched.
National Police Chief Ihor Klymenko said that so far only six people have been identified dead, while 39 are still missing.
Russia has not officially confirmed the attack, but Margarita Simonyan, head of Russia’s state television network RT, said on her messaging app channel that military officials told her a building was in Vinnytsia was targeted because it was home to Ukraine’s “Nazis”.
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Children killed in Russian missile attack
The rocket ignited a fire that spread, engulfing 50 cars in a nearby parking lot.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the attack was deliberately aimed at civilians.
The strike comes as government officials from around 40 countries meet in The Hague to discuss coordinated efforts to investigate and prosecute potential war crimes in Ukraine.
“Every day Russia is destroying civilians, killing Ukrainian children, aiming missiles at civilian objects,” Zelenskyy wrote on the messaging app Telegram.
“Where there are no (target) troops. What is it if not an overt act of terrorism?”
View of a damaged building in Vinnytsia
Vinnytsia is one of the largest cities of Ukraine, with a population of 370,000.
Thousands of people from eastern Ukraine, where Russia’s offensive is focused, have fled there since the war began.
Meanwhile, one person was injured when a rocket damaged several buildings in the southern city of Mykolaiv early Thursday morning, Ukrainian authorities said.
A rocket attack Wednesday killed at least five people in the city.
Russian forces also continued their artillery and missile attacks in eastern Ukraine, mainly in Donetsk province, after passing the adjacent Luhansk.
The city of Lysychansk, the last major stronghold of the Ukrainian resistance in Luhansk, fell to Russian forces earlier this month.
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