Russian missile hits Ukrainian apartment building; one killed

A Russian missile struck an apartment building in the centre of Kramatorsk on Tuesday killing at least one person and wounding seven others in one of Ukraines major city strongholds in its eastern Donetsk region as it fights against Moscows invasion officials saidUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted a video showing gaping holes in the facade of the lowrise building that bore the brunt of the strike The Ukrainian general prosecutors office and regional Gov Pavlo Kyrylenko also reported on the attack posting photos of the building with mounds of rubble in front of itThe impact damaged nine apartment blocks a kindergarten a local bank branch and two cars Kyrylenko said The war which erupted after Russias launched its fullscale invasion in February 2022 has brought heavy civilian casualtiesTuesdays victims were among at least seven civilians killed and 30 wounded in 24 hours Ukraine authorities said They included a 55yearold woman killed when a Russian shell hit her car Tuesday in a border town in northeastern UkraineRussian troops are striking residential buildings schools and hospitals leaving cities on fire and in ruins Kyrylenko the regional governor said on Ukrainian televisionThe Russians mark each metre yard of their advance in the region not only with their own blood but also with the lost lives of civiliansKramatorsk houses the local Ukrainian army headquarters Ukrainian authorities say it has been regularly targeted by Russian shelling and other attacks in the pastA missile strike on the citys train station last April which Kyiv and much of the international community blamed on Moscow killed several dozen people and wounded more than 100Russia had welcomed a Chinese peace proposal to end the fighting but Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday that Kyivs refusal to have talks leaves Moscow with only military optionsBeijing has said it has a no limits friendship with Russia and has refused to criticize Moscows invasion or even refer to it as an invasion We must achieve our goals Peskov told reportersAlso read Transnistria accuses Ukraine of attempting to kill its presidentGiven the current stance of the Kyiv regime now its only possible by military meansHowever Moscows pursuit of its goals in Ukraine has been slowed by poor war management and short resources after being beaten back at the end of last year in a Ukrainian counteroffensive military analysts sayThe UK Ministry of Defense said Tuesday that Russias artillery ammunition shortages have likely worsened to the extent that extremely punitive shellrationing is in force on many parts of the frontThat shortcoming it said has almost certainly been a key reason why no Russian formation has recently been able to generate operationally significant offensive actionIn other developmentsIcelands prime minister Katrin Jakobsdottir made an unannounced visit to Kyiv on TuesdayShe laid flowers at a ceremony for Ukrainian volunteers who have been killed in fighting since 2014 when Russia annexed Ukraines Crimean Peninsula and Russiabacked separatists started an insurgency in the eastern Donbas regionJakobsdottir was expected to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during her visitThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever