Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine faced another day of brutal Russian attacks Tuesday. Several cities were attacked after dozens of missiles and drones packed with explosives fell on Ukraine on Monday. they turned to paintings in cities like the capital, Kyiv, which had largely escaped Russian artillery for months.
Ukrainian officials said at least 19 other people were killed in the first round of movements on Monday and more than a hundred wounded. The death toll from Tuesday’s attack was unclear without delay. The anti-aircraft sirens pierced the calm of the early hours of the morning, accompanied by new alerts sent through cell phones, alert for the arrival of missiles.
Russia’s Defense Ministry showed Tuesday that it had continued its “massive high-precision, long-range attack with air and sea weapons. “Crimean peninsula occupied by Russia and mainland Russia.
Ukraine’s military said Russia fired more than 75 cruise missiles at the country on Monday, of which about 40 were intercepted through air defense systems. Some two dozen Iranian-made suicide drones were used in the attacks.
Ukraine’s infrastructure, the only target of the attacks, according to Russia, was in fact hit hard. President Volodymyr Zelensky called on businesses to close after 6 p. m. and citizens restricting appliance use at peak times in an effort to conserve electricity.
On Tuesday morning, Ukraine was still recovering from the attack when a new barrage of missiles fell. People took to the streets covered in debris to assess the damage and calculate prices. infrastructure, but in dead civilians.
The attack sent Kyiv citizens back to underground and underground shelters for the first time in many weeks, where they sang defiant Ukrainian folk songs and their country’s national anthem.
But while President Vladimir Putin would possibly have demonstrated Russia’s ability to triumph in the Ukraine total, to recklessly launch missiles over civilian neighborhoods, its foot soldiers are being defeated on the battlefield.
“That is why they harbor this terror,” Ukrainian President Zelenskyy said, adding a call for his own forces to “make the battlefield even more painful for the enemy. “
CBS News visited villages near the front lines in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region, one of 4 Putin recently declared Russian territory in an illegal land seizure. Despite their supposed annexation, Ukrainian troops have recaptured territory in Kherson and other spaces in a counterattack so immediate that it is measured daily, across the mile.
The villages there were among the first to fall into Russian hands and remained under their iron control for seven months, until they were liberated a week ago.
The Oksana resident told CBS News she was still incredulous, but when she saw Ukrainian troops entering her village, all she felt was “happiness. “
“We were suffering,” she said, holding back tears as she described life under Russian occupation. “It’s so hard and so scary. “
In a high school that was used for months as army headquarters during the occupation of Russian soldiers, the building itself tells the story of the brutal war that returned the people to Ukrainian control. Huge pieces of concrete are missing from the walls, all the windows are broken, the buildings are burning, and the ground is covered with burnt corpses from armored bodies of workers wearing the white “Z” of the Russian army.
CBS News discovered instructor Sveltana Reznichenko taking inventory of the dirt and distress left by retreating Russian forces. It looked more like the remnants of a motley defense force than an army.
“When I was hit there and saw this horror, I still had the religion that we would rebuild everything,” he said.
Zelenskyy vowed Monday night that his country would “rebuild all the elements that were broken in today’s Russian terrorist attacks. It’s a matter of time. “
On Tuesday morning, there is still more to rebuild and many more fights to be made.