By Anna Pruchnicka and Max Hunder
KYIV, Jan 28 (Reuters) – Russia pounded Ukraine with drones and a missile overnight, killing a couple near the capital Kyiv a day after five people died in an attack on a passenger train.
Local media reported that the woman had a four-year-old daughter who survived the strike. Officials said four people, including two children, sought medical attention after the attack.
“When I carried her out, the girl started crying very hard, and then she began to shake violently,” Marian Kushnir, a journalist who was a neighbour of the deceased couple, told Radio Free Europe.
“I felt a lot of pain, because in 10 years of war, I had never had such feelings before, when, holding a crying four-year-old child in my arms, I realised that her mother was dead.”
The latest attack came as Ukraine was still reeling from Tuesday’s drone strike on a passenger train in the northeast that killed five people, an assault President Volodymyr Zelenskiy denounced as “terrorism.”
There was no comment from Russia on the attacks. Both Moscow and Kyiv deny they are targeting civilians in the war, which is approaching its four-year mark on February 24.
Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched an Iskander-M ballistic missile and 146 drones overnight, of which 103 were downed.
In Kyiv, a 17-storey residential building was hit, causing minor damage to the roof and shattering windows on the upper floors, the emergency services said.
ODESA ATTACKED AGAIN, PORT INFRASTRUCTURE DAMAGED
Russia also struck other locations across the country, including the southern port city of Odesa, as well as Zaporizhzhia and Kryvyi Rih.
In Odesa, which had declared a day of mourning after a drone strike killed three people overnight on Tuesday, three more people were hurt, the head of the city’s military administration, Serhiy Lysak, said.
Ukraine’s Sea Ports Authority said the Black Sea port of Pivdennyi came under attack but continued operating normally.
Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba said the strike damaged manufacturing facilities, a locomotive and hangars, and sparked a fire that was being extinguished.
Moscow has repeatedly attacked Ukraine’s ports in recent months in retaliation for Kyiv’s strikes on unregulated oil tankers sailing to Russia.
Emergency services said the attack damaged a monastery, causing a fire.
In the central city of Kryvyi Rih, two people were injured in an overnight missile attack, military administration head Oleksandr Vilkul said. The attack “significantly” damaged an infrastructure facility, leaving nearly 700 buildings without heating, he added.
At dawn, Russia also attacked the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, Governor Ivan Fedorov reported on Telegram.
Six people were hurt in the attack, which also damaged 14 apartment buildings, partially knocking out electricity, he said.
(Reporting by Anna Pruchnicka in Gdansk and Max Hunder in Kyiv; Editing by Andrew Heavens and Ros Russell)
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