Rescuers continue to dig through the rubble of the city center of Chernihiv, in northern Ukraine, hit yesterday by a Russian missile that caused at least 7 deaths and more than 140 injured, an attack described as "atrocious" by the United Nations .
«At the moment the work to clear the city center continues, the construction machinery is at work. All surrounding buildings are being inspected to assess the extent of the damage,” the governor of the Chernihiv region, Vyacheslav Chaus, reported on Telegram this morning.
Seven people, including a child, died, and 148 were injured, 41 of whom are still hospitalized, the governor said. Yesterday evening, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky estimated the number of wounded at 144.
"An ordinary Saturday, which Russia has turned into a day of pain and loss," Zelensky said, adding that the attack occurred on the day of the Transfiguration of the Lord, an important Orthodox holiday. "It is atrocious to attack the main square of a big city in the morning when people are walking, some are going to church," said the UN humanitarian coordinator in Ukraine, Denise Brown.
The shelling took people by surprise, in a city spared large-scale attacks in recent months after being briefly surrounded by Russian forces at the start of the invasion in February 2022.
(Unioneonline/E.Fr.)
