Volodymyr Zelenskiy vows revenge for Chernihiv attack

Kiev. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday vowed a strong response to a Russian missile attack on the country’s northern city of Chernihiv. Seven people were killed and around 150 others were injured in the attack a day earlier. Zelensky said in a video broadcast early Sunday at the end of his visit to Sweden, “I am sure that our soldiers will give Russia an answer to this terrorist attack.” Will give a befitting reply.

This was his first foreign trip since attending the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in Lithuania last month. He mentioned a six-year-old girl named Sofia who was killed in the attack and confirmed that 15 children were among the injured. Vyacheslav Chaus, the governor of the Chernihiv region, said on Sunday that the total number of injured had risen to 148. Russian troops shelled the city of Kupiansk on Sunday morning, seriously wounding one person, according to Kharkiv’s regional governor, Oleh Tsinihubov.

Zelensky arrived in the Netherlands on Sunday. Two days earlier, the Netherlands said the US had given Dutch and Danish authorities permission to supply F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine’s air force. Zelensky is meeting with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte at a military base in the southern city of Eindhoven. Meanwhile, in Russia on Sunday, five people were injured when a Ukrainian drone targeted a railway station in the city of Kursk. Regional governor Roman Starovit gave this information. At the same time, the Russian air defense system jammed a drone going towards Moscow in the early hours of Sunday, causing it to crash. Russia’s Defense Minister called it an attempt by the Ukrainian regime to carry out a terrorist attack. Flights from Moscow’s Vnukovo and Domodedovo airports were briefly suspended.

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