CHERNIHIV, Ukraine - A Russian missile strike on Ukraine's northern city of Chernihiv killed seven people and wounded 144 on Saturday, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, in what the UN denounced as a 'heinous' attack.
Local residents clear debris and shattered glass of the windows at the site of a missile strike in Chernihiv, on August 19, 2023.
"It is heinous to attack the main square of a large city, in the morning, while people are out walking, some going to church to celebrate a religious day for many Ukrainians," said Denise Brown, the UN's humanitarian coordinator for Ukraine. Ukraine's culture ministry said the centre of Chernihiv, a city with a thousand-year history, is a candidate for nomination to the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Zelensky was in Sweden for talks with Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, where he finalised"the production of СV90 in our country."They also discussed Ukraine pilots participating in test trials of Swedish Gripen fighter jets, he said in his evening address.Hours earlier, the Kremlin said Putin had travelled to the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, Moscow's hub for its operations in Ukraine, to meet his top generals in a rare trip close to combat zones.
A video published by the RIA Novosti news agency showed Putin, wearing a suit, stepping out of a jeep in the dark and being greeted with a handshake by Gerasimov, in military attire. And the Russian army said it had thwarted Ukrainian attacks on Crimea as well as attempted drone strikes on a military airfield in the northwestern Novgorod region, Moscow and its region.Both sides have reported regular drone incursions as Ukraine presses a counteroffensive to reclaim Russian-held territory.
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