Russia targeted the home city of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky overnight Saturday, in a ballistic missile strike that killed at least 19 people, including nine children — one of the deadliest attacks on the frontline metropolis since the war began.
A residential neighborhood was leveled during the attack on Kryvyi Rih, where at least 72 people were also injured, one of the youngest among them a 3-month-old baby, officials said.
“There were dead children lying there, crying parents — it was horrible,” a 47-year-old woman named Yulia told Reuters.
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A woman wept at the site of a deadly Russian missile strike on a residential area of Ukraine on April 5, 2025. REUTERS Bodies were strewn across the ground in Kryvyi Rih after a Russian missile
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