"Last night's attacks again show Russia bent on more suffering and the annihilation of Ukraine. Devastating to see children among innocent victims harmed and killed. My thoughts are with the families today. We need the strongest international pressure on Russia to stop this war"
- Kallas wrote on X.
From Saturday to Sunday Russian invaders carried out one of their most massive airstrikes against Ukraine so far, using almost 300 Shahed drones and over 60 missiles of various types overnight. Vast majority of their targets were of non-military nature - with damages inflicted both in Kyiv and all across the country.
At least 12 civilians, including children, were killed - and many more suffered injuries. President Volodymyr Zelensky called the night "very difficult" and called for new international sanctions against Russia to force it to end hostilities.
Russia first illegally invaded Ukraine in 2014 - and has occupied its entire region of Crimea and large chunks of its Donbass and Luhansk regions ever since. On February 24, 2022, Moscow took things further - mounting an unlawful and unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and starting the largest military campaign in Europe since World War II.
Numerous reports from a variety of established sources clearly confirm that Russians have committed countless war crimes in Ukraine - breaking the Geneva convention on a daily basis and killing tens of thousands of civilians, both in the occupied areas and through daily missile and drone attacks on Ukrainian cities.
The list of reported Kremlin's transgressions includes regular attacks on non-military targets, notwithstanding hospitals, cultural institutions and housing. Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine started, Moscow's troops have been found to be murdering and torturing both war prisoners and civilians en masse, also kidnapping thousands of Ukrainian children into Russia and using internationally forbidden weapons on a regular basis.
Sunday is the 1,187th day of Ukraine's heroic resistance against full-scale Russian war of aggression.
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Source: IAR, PAP