Rescuers completed operations today after a drone struck an apartment building in the south Ukrainian city of Odessa discovering four more bodies and increasing the death toll to 12.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said today that political will is needed to ensure Ukraine has the military supplies it needs or the world will face “one of the most shameful pages in history”.
“The main thing is the political will to make this happen, to ensure the level of supplies that will help,” Zelensky said in his videotaped speech tonight.
“If this does not happen, it will be one of the most shameful pages in history if America or Europe loses to the Iranian Shahid (unmanned aerial vehicles) or to the Russian fighter jets,” he added.
Odesa regional governor Oleh Kiper wrote on Telegram that rescue teams, working until tonight, found the body of an eight-year-old girl near the body of her older brother, who had been discovered earlier.
Earlier today rescuers had discovered the bodies of a mother and her baby.
Kiper announced that five of the dead in the Odessa apartment building were children, the youngest just four months old.
The unmanned aircraft crashed on Saturday into a residential building in Odessa. President Volodymyr Zelensky said the deaths could have been avoided if Ukraine had not faced delays in arms deliveries.
Interior Minister Ihor Klimenko wrote on Telegram that Russian forces injured 16 people in an airstrike on an apartment building in the eastern city of Kurakhove, west of the Russian-held city of Donetsk.
Two of the injured are children. Dozens of apartment buildings were damaged.
Today was declared a day of mourning in Odessa.
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