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As per a Reuters report, a Russian missile struck an apartment building in the Ukrainian port of Mykolaiv early on Tuesday. At least three explosions were heard in the city in the week hours, and this missile strike was one of them. It completely destroyed one wing of the building in the downtown area, leaving a massive crater.
Meanwhile, Ukraine accused Russia of kidnapping two senior employees at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. In a Telegram post, Energoatom said Russian forces on Monday “kidnapped” the head of information technology Oleg Kostyukov and the plant’s assistant general director Oleg Osheka and “took them to an unknown destination”.
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“At present, nothing is known of their whereabouts or condition.”
The latest strike came hours after the United States warned that it would hold Russia accountable for war crimes.
A fire crew pulled the dead body of a man from the rubble, a witness told Reuters.
On Monday, Russian strikes on Kyiv and other cities had killed at least four people, the second wave of air strikes in a week. “Right now, there is a new Russian drone attack,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a Monday evening video address. “There are (drones) that have been shot down.”
Ukraine said the attacks were carried out by Iran-made “suicide drones”, which fly to their target and detonate. US President Joe Biden’s press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters that the White House “strongly condemns Russia’s missile strikes” and said the attack “continues to demonstrate Putin’s brutality”.
Ukraine forces have been advancing in the east and south, with Moscow losing ground. On October 8, there was a blast on a bridge connecting Russia to Crimea.
