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A missile of the X-101 struck a five-story residential building in Pryluky, Chernihiv region; search-and-rescue teams worked at the scene all day as the death toll reached 19, including five children, according to President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy in his evening address, quoted by his press service.
Zelenskyy informed that four of the killed children were Aleksandr, Kyrylo, and Serhiy, all around one year old. "Suspline Chernihiv" noted that a family living on the fifth floor, where the rocket hit, died in the blast. Victora Bondarenko, 58-year-old, her 37-year-old daughter Kateryna Antipenko, and the one-year-old grandson Oleksandr died. Another child of Kateryna Antipenko – older daughter Olga – survived because she was in a room with windows facing the courtyard. The relatives took the child away. The girl's father had long worked abroad and is now returning home, the godmother of the deceased grandmother told journalists.
The rocket strike killed the neighboring family of 13-year-old girl, her eight-year-old brother, and their parents, said First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska. According to Oleksandr Perovskyi, head of the board of Ukrzaliznytsia, it was a railway worker, a locomotive engineer family.
"Next to the loved ones are our colleagues. There is a whole railway dynasty in the family. As much as we can we will support, but I can't even imagine the pain and emptiness they will live with. We also have railway workers with destroyed homes. But they were on duty at the station and survived. That is the main thing. We will help with property," he added.
In total across Ukraine today, as Zelenskyy noted, 25 dead and 100 wounded. Later, the Ministry of Internal Affairs wrote that in Pryluky there were already 20 fatalities. "Kremenchuk, Oleksandriya, Kyiv. Today’s shelling cut short 28 lives," — announced the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Ihor Viyinsky.
In Kremenchuk, Poltava region, several apartment buildings were damaged; 47 people were injured as a result of the Russian strike, two killed, according to the regional military administration.
The city suffered some of the most extensive destruction of housing infrastructure since the start of the full-scale invasion, said Kremenchuk mayor Vitalii Maletsky.
8 October, Kremenchuk was declared a day of mourning. In Pryluky, mourning will last three days — from today until 9 October.
"The strike was a combined one: a lot of ballistic missiles, many cruise missiles, Shahed. Such a 'gift' [illegitimate President of Russia Vladimir] Putin made for his birthday. The murder of children, the murder of people. Earlier there were fresh Shahed strikes and airbombs. It is important that there is no silence from leaders about what happened," Zelenskyy said.
He added that Russia "is moving in this direction to escalate, to killings and shelling".
"Putin does not feel that this creates real problems for him. Sanctions directions are largely weakened, and signals about easing sanctions on oligarchs are signals actually about normalizing the war," Zelenskyy fumed.
"Today, on Putin’s birthday, I wish the Russian dictator to end up in detention in The Hague or in hell. That is the only thing he deserves," added Vyacheslav Chaush, head of Chernihiv Oblast Military Administration.
In such moments, Viytsivsky says, there are also messages that people truly await – the word "saved".
"Today, rescuers and police managed to free people from under the rubble, evacuate from destroyed buildings, and protect people from fire 29. Footage showing a DSN officer carrying a five-year-old girl on his arms circulated across almost all media. It features unit commander Pavlo Levchenko. He, with colleagues, freed a child and her mother from under the rubble, who were thrown out of the building by the blast wave, he told. — Many lives were saved today thanks to the prompt actions of Kremenchuk police officers. In the first minutes after the shelling, they evacuated residents, provided medical aid, and transported the injured to the ambulance."
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