Nine people died and four were injured after Russian forces hit residential areas, including schools, in the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv, the local governor said on Thursday.
“Russian aircraft also attacked two schools in the Staraya Podusivka area [of Chernihiv] and private homes. Rescuers are working in the area,” the governor of the Chernihiv region, Vyacheslav Chaus, said on Telegram.
“According to the emergency services, nine people died and four are injured,” he added.
He posted a video of emergency rescuers working in the rubble of badly destroyed buildings.
Since it invaded Ukraine a week ago, Russia has said that it does not target civilian areas, despite widespread evidence to the contrary.
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The strikes came as Ukraine and Russia officials gathered for talks on a ceasefire on the Belarus-Poland border Thursday.
Russia says it is trying to “de-Nazfiy” Ukraine.
Putin on Thursday vowed to carry on with his advance in Ukraine in a phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron.
The Russian leader has showed no signs of backing down even as a barrage of Western sanctions is set to destroy Moscow’s economy.
According to a latest report, at Least 22 Killed In Russian Air Strikes In Ukraine’s Chernihiv Region. The Ukrainian emergency services said rescue work was ongoing, without specifying where exactly the attack took place.
Lviv: At least 22 bodies have been recovered from rubble in the wake of Russian air strikes in Ukraine’s Chernihiv region, the Ukrainian emergency services said in an online post.
It said rescue work was ongoing, without specifying where exactly the attack took place. Earlier the regional governor said at least nine people had been killed by an air strike on two schools and private houses.
