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Russia bombing residential areas in Ukraine: Zelensky

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky claims invading armies destroying non-military buildings and targets

Updated 4 years ago · Published on 27 Feb 2022 4:36PM

Russia bombing residential areas in Ukraine: Zelensky
Kira Shapovalova runs with other citizens to an underground shelter during a bomb threat in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev on the morning of February 26, 2022. Ukrainian soldiers beat back a Russian attack in the capital Kyiv only hours after President Volodymyr Zelensky warns Moscow would attempt to take the city before dawn. – AFP Pic, February 27, 2022

KYIV – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said today that Moscow was bombarding residential areas in Ukraine as its invading forces sought to push deeper into the pro-Western country.

“The past night in Ukraine was brutal, again shooting, again bombardments of residential areas, civilian infrastructure,” Zelensky said in an address posted online.

“Today, there is not a single thing in the country that the occupiers do not consider an acceptable target. They fight against everyone. They fight against all living things – against kindergartens, against residential buildings and even against ambulances.”

He said Russian forces were “firing rockets and missiles at entire city districts in which there isn’t and never has been any military infrastructure”.

“Vasylkiv, Kyiv, Chernigiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and many other towns in Ukraine are living in conditions that were last experienced on our lands during World War II.” – AFP, February 27, 2022

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