Ukraine says more than 100 civilians and soldiers killed as Russia attacks on multiple fronts across the country.
Ukraine says that more than 100 people have been killed so far in Russia’s invasion, with fighting widespread across the country and Russian forces advancing towards the capital, Kyiv.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin ordered wide-ranging attacks on Ukraine on Thursday, hitting multiple cities and bases with air strikes or shelling, and attacking by land and sea.
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He called them “heroes” in a video address early on Friday in which he also said 316 people have been wounded.
“They’re killing people and turning peaceful cities into military targets. It’s foul and will never be forgiven,” Zelenskyy said, referring to Russian forces.
Explosions heard in the capital early on Friday were described by the besieged government as “horrific rocket strikes”.
The blasts in Kyiv set off a second day of an invasion that has already displaced at least 100,000 people, according to the United Nations refugee agency.
Kyiv reported that 18 people were killed at a military base near the Black Sea port of Odesa in the deadliest single strike of Russia’s attack.
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Emergency services said a boy was killed in eastern Ukraine’s Kharkiv region after shelling struck an apartment building.
Ukraine’s military on Thursday said it had destroyed four Russian tanks on a road near Kharkiv, killed 50 troops near a town in the Luhansk region and downed six Russian warplanes elsewhere in the east.
Ukraine also said a military plane with 14 people on board crashed south of Kyiv with officials still determining how many people died, while a transport plane crashed in Russia killing the crew.
Russia denied reports its aircraft or armoured vehicles had been destroyed. Russian-backed separatists claimed to have downed two Ukrainian planes.
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Ukrainian police said on Thursday that Russia had carried out 203 attacks since the beginning of the day.
Ukraine said Russian forces had seized the Chernobyl nuclear power plant – prompting concern from international nuclear watchdogs.
Moscow’s defence ministry said on Thursday its forces had “successfully completed” their objectives for the day, earlier claiming to have destroyed more than 70 Ukrainian military targets, including 11 airfields.
The defence ministry said it had neutralised Ukrainian military airbases and its air defence systems.
However, Ukrainian forces downed an aircraft over Kyiv early on Friday, which then crashed into a residential building and set it on fire, said Anton Herashchenko, an adviser to the interior minister. It was unclear if the aircraft was manned.
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After weeks of denying plans to invade, Putin justified his actions in a televised address early on Thursday, asserting that the attack was needed to protect civilians in eastern Ukraine – a claim Ukraine and its allies have slammed as false and a pretext for a wider invasion.
Putin also accused the United States and its allies of ignoring Russia’s demands for Ukraine to be barred from joining NATO and for security guarantees. He has also called Ukraine an artificial creation and denied its right to statehood.
After Russia launched attacks on Thursday, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy declared martial law, cut diplomatic ties with Moscow and called on civilians to join the fight to defend Ukraine.
“As of today, our countries are on different sides of world history,” Zelenskyy wrote on Twitter. “Russia has embarked on a path of evil, but Ukraine is defending itself and won’t give up its freedom.”
Jens Stoltenberg, the chief of the NATO alliance, said Russia’s “brutal act of war” shattered peace in Europe, and joined a chorus of world leaders who decried the attack, which could cause massive casualties, topple Ukraine’s democratically elected government and upend the post-Cold War security order.
The World Health Organization (WHO) voiced alarm over an expected health emergency in Ukraine.
“Amid the conflict rapidly unfolding in Ukraine, the WHO Regional Office for Europe reiterates its deepest concern for the safety, health and wellbeing of all civilians impacted by the crisis in the country and possibly beyond,” the office said in a statement, warning any further escalation could result in a humanitarian catastrophe.
The European arm of the world health body added it was working closely “with all UN partners in rapidly scaling up readiness to respond to the expected health emergency triggered by the conflict”.
The Sorce: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/24/russia-ukraine-invasion-casualties-death-toll
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