NATO jets launched brutal strikes as Russia killed children and pensioners
F16 fighter jets have been launched by NATO following a fresh wave of brutal attacks by Russia, in which an eight-year-old boy from Cherkasy was among those killed in Ukraine.
NATO warplanes have been deployed after a brutal new wave of attacks by Russia killed children and pensioners in Ukraine.
A drone attack on Cherkasy killed an eight-year-old boy and injured 14 others. A horrific attack at a bus stop in Zaporizhia has claimed the life of a 74-year-old kiosk saleswoman.
Ukraine attacked military targets, including FPV drones, killing a Russian soldier as he walked along a pond in the battle zone on the Pokrovsky front line in the disputed Donetsk region.
Drone attack on an office building in Zaporizhzhia this week (Image: Ukrinform/Shutterstock)
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Vladimir Putin’s fighter attempted to shoot at a drone of the 414th Madyar Bird Brigade – but it exploded in a fireball and threw it backwards towards the water.
Russian attacks across Ukraine in the past 24 hours have included new attacks on ports in the Odessa region of the Danube River – just half a mile from NATO territory in Romania.
“Two F-16 aircraft from the Romanian Air Force’s Air Police Combat Service took off from the 86th Air Base in Fetesti, and the air defence systems were put into firing positions,” a statement from the country’s Ministry of National Defence said.
“Within a few hours, another group of drones was seen moving towards Izmail [Ukraine], and a new Ro-Alert message was sent at 5:08 am.
Putin’s forces have carried out fresh attacks on Ukraine (Image: Poole/AFP via Getty Images)
Earlier, five people were killed and 27 injured in Dnipro in Russian attacks. Heartbreaking scenes showed victims of the blast on a street in a Ukrainian city with shrapnel wounds, lacerations and fractures.
An emergency worker assisting a 54-year-old civilian woman says, “Just a normal civilian woman, nothing military… Film it, film it.” Her leg is torn.”
The woman says: “It’s been torn apart… I can’t feel my legs.” Three more were injured in subsequent attacks on Dnipro. Putin’s forces brutally attacked Volodymyr Zelensky’s home city of Kryvyi Rih, engulfing it in a giant mushroom flame.
Six aerial bombs attacked Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second city, in the Pechenehy Dam area. Putin’s forces repeatedly attacked the border town of Sumy, targeting emergency personnel at the site of the initial shelling.
In a blow to Putin, a military-related gunpowder plant in Kazan exploded in an unknown incident. At least one person died. Ukrainian armed forces attacked the town of Enrhodar Nuclear Power Plant in Russian-occupied Zaporizhia, causing a power cut.
