Ukraine Mourns 19, Including Kids, Killed in Russian Strike

Ukraine on Saturday mourned 19 people, including nine children, killed in a Russian ballistic missile strike on President Volodymyr Zelensky's home city of Kryvyi Rig, as the region's governor said it was "the kind of pain you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy".

- Agence France-Presse

KYIV:

Sixty-one people were wounded, 12 of them children, Dnipropetrovsk governor Sergiy Lysak said after emergency operations were completed overnight. The missile attack on Friday, one of the deadliest in recent weeks, struck a residential area near a children's playground, said Oleksandr Vilkul, the head of Kryvyi Rig's military administration. "On 7, 8 and 9 April, days of mourning will be declared in Kryvyi Rig for those killed as a result of yesterday's terrorist attacks on our city by the killer country," he said.

"Children, families, the elderly... Ballistic missile and shake-down attacks on residential areas and playgrounds... This is nothing less than a mass murder of civilians."