The Ukrainian President condemns the Russian bombing that coincided with the celebration of Palm Sunday
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the Russian air strikes that coincided with the celebration of Orthodox Palm Sunday, on Sunday, and included an attack that killed a father and his daughter in a house in the city of Zaporizhia.
The Ukrainian military reported Russian attacks and shelling across the front, and the fiercest fighting still focused on two cities in the eastern Donetsk region, Bakhmut and Avdiivka. Russian forces have been besieging Bakhmut for months in the longest battle of the war, which has been going on for more than a year.
Ukraine’s state emergency services said a 50-year-old man and his 11-year-old daughter died after Russian forces bombed an apartment building in Zaporizhia, in the southeast of the country. A woman, identified as his wife, was pulled from the rubble.
“This is how the terrorist state celebrates Palm Sunday,” Zelensky said in his nightly address via video conference. “This shows how Russia places itself in greater isolation from the world.”
The majority of Ukraine’s 41 million people are Orthodox Christians, who will celebrate Easter a week from now.
(Reuters)
