A missile strike on a residential building in Ukraine killed five and wounded dozens on Monday, as Russia said it stepped up strikes against Ukrainian military facilities in response to attacks on its territory, including Moscow.
Two missiles landed close to the centre of Kryvyi Rig just after 9:00 , Ukrainian interior minister Igor Klymenko wrote on Telegram.
One of the strikes hit a large nine-storey residential apartment block, punching a huge hole in the facade that destroyed flats on several floors and sparked a fire. Russia on Sunday said it had downed Ukrainian drones targeting Moscow and annexed Crimea, the latest in a series of attacks on the capital, border regions and the peninsula on the Black Sea."Against the background of the failure of the so-called 'counteroffensive', Kyiv... has focused on carrying out terrorist attacks on civilian infrastructure," Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said Monday.
The capital and its environs, lying about 500 kilometres from the Ukrainian border, had rarely been targeted during the conflict until several drone attacks this year.Following the strikes, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Sunday that war was coming to Russia.Gradually, the war is returning to the territory of Russia - to its symbolic centres and military bases, and this is an inevitable, natural and absolutely fair process.
"All possible measures have been taken to defend civil infrastructure" against Ukrainian strikes, Peskov added.
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