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Russian missile strike on apartment building in Ukraine kills 14, including four children. Zelensky calls it the Russian army’s ‘birthday gift’ to Putin.

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Russia’s military carried out a combined missile and drone attack overnight and into the morning, striking several regions of Ukraine. Ukraine’s Air Force reported that air defenses had destroyed five ballistic missiles, 39 cruise missiles, and 117 drones since the previous evening, including 38 jet-propelled drones.

In Pryluky, in the Chernihiv region, a cruise missile strike destroyed two sections of a five-story apartment building, according to data from authorities. Authorities said 14 people were killed, including four children, and 50 people, including seven children, were injured.

The strike also damaged other residential buildings in Pryluky, a children’s and youth creativity center, an industrial facility, and private vehicles.

In Kyiv, authorities reported several waves of ballistic missile strikes overnight. Two people were killed, and strikes hit four districts of the city.

Strikes on Kremenchuk killed two people. Authorities said a residential area there was hit.

“The Russian army’s ‘birthday present’ to Putin today was the destruction of an apartment building in Pryluky, in the Chernihiv region,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said, commenting on the strike. Vladimir Putin turned 74 on October 7.

Zelensky said the main target of the massive strike was energy infrastructure, adding that the Russians “wanted to strike painfully and demonstratively.”

Russia’s Defense Ministry said in its daily report that the strikes had targeted military facilities, including a drone assembly shop and a plant assembling the “Flamingo” missile in Kyiv, a factory producing unmanned boats in the Odesa region, and a shop producing drone components in the Kirovohrad region, among other facilities. The ministry did not report any strikes against energy infrastructure.

Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed that the target of the strike on Pryluky was an industrial facility that produces and stores components for “Flamingo” missiles.

War in photographs. Pryluky. The aftermath of the strike.

State Emergency Service of Ukraine / AP / Scanpix / LETA

Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA

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War in photographs. Pryluky. The aftermath of the strike.

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