Four people were killed in Russia’s overnight attack on Kyiv and the region, including a three-year-old boy. Following the attack, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for more pressure on Russia and for Ukraine to receive more air defense systems and interceptor missiles.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote about this on August 8.
Last night, Russia killed three people in Pukhivka, Kyiv region, with drone strikes – a grandfather, a grandmother, and their grandson. The boy was only three years old.
Four more people were hospitalized: the child’s parents, his 15-year-old brother, and a neighbor who came to the family’s aid and was wounded in a double-tap strike. The victims suffered thermal burns and shrapnel wounds.
Zelenskyy stressed that it was an ordinary residential building and that the Russians could not have been unaware of this.
There was also a strike involving six ballistic missiles against civilian infrastructure in Kyiv. As of the time of Zelenskyy’s statement, one person had been reported dead.
The Donetsk, Kharkiv, Sumy, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, Odesa, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Chernihiv, and Poltava regions also came under attack.
Zelenskyy said that Europe, America, and Ukraine have long wanted to stop this Russian war, while only Putin does not want to and is “desperately clinging to his ballistic missiles and drones to keep the war going.”
“More pressure is needed. New sanctions that will prevent the production of these ballistic missiles. And we definitely need more protection for our people,” the president said.
He called for more anti-ballistic capabilities and interceptor missiles for Patriot, SAMP/T, NASAMS, Hawk, and Ukraine’s F-16s.
“All of this works and helps protect lives when it is here, in Ukraine, rather than sitting in warehouses thousands of kilometers away from Russian strikes against life,” Zelenskyy said.
