Zelensky vows retaliation for Chernihiv attack that killed seven people and wounded almost 150
The Hindu
“I am sure our soldiers will respond to Russia for this terrorist attack. Respond tangibly,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a video address published in the early hours of August 20 at the end of a visit to Sweden, his first foreign trip since attending a NATO summit in Lithuania last month.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on August 20 vowed stern retaliation for a Russian missile strike in the center of the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv that killed seven people and wounded almost 150 others the day before.
“I am sure our soldiers will respond to Russia for this terrorist attack. Respond tangibly,” Mr. Zelenskyy said in a video address published in the early hours of August 20 at the end of a visit to Sweden, his first foreign trip since attending a NATO summit in Lithuania last month.
He identified a 6-year-old girl named Sofia as among the dead in the attack and confirmed that the wounded included 15 children.
The governor of the Chernihiv region, Vyacheslav Chaus, said Sunday that the total number of people confirmed to have been wounded had risen to 148.
Further east, Russian forces shelled the city of Kupiansk on August 20 morning, seriously wounding a man, according to Kharkiv regional Gov. Oleh Syniehubov.
Mr. Zelenskyy arrived in the Netherlands on August 20, two days after the country said the United States had given its approval for Dutch and Danish authorities to deliver F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine’s air force.
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