Russia-Ukraine war live updates: Vinnytsia strike work of ‘terrorist state,’ Zelensky says; Griner trial continues
Russian missiles struck a business complex in the central Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia on Thursday, killing at least 23 people in an attack Ukrainian authorities described as a war crime and act of terrorism.
Cruise missiles launched from a Russian submarine in the Black Sea damaged a nine-story office block and destroyed cars in its parking lot, far from the war’s front lines, about 10:50 a.m. local time, Ukrainian officials said, according to Reuters. Restaurants and nearby residential buildings also appeared to have been struck. President Volodymyr Zelensky said two “community facilities” had been destroyed.
Ukraine’s state emergency service said 23 people were killed, including three children. Seventy-one people were hospitalized, and 29 remained missing as of late Thursday. The service said at 10:30 p.m. local time that its units had suspended their work.
Photos sent to The Washington Post by Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s Interior Ministry, who said they were taken at the scene, show a bloodied child, with her legs at an unnatural angle, lying next to a severed adult foot. In another photo, charred remains, barely recognizable as human, lie splayed in the dirt.
