A three-month-old child was among at least eight civilians killed in the Black Sea port city of Odesa on April 23, following indiscriminate Russian bombardment of non-military targets.
“One of the victims was three months old! One month old when the [renewed] war started [on Feb. 24]. What has come of the world?! Scumbags! Stinking scumbags!” President Volodymyr Zelensky said in reference to Russia during a news conference at a central Kyiv subway station.
An additional 18 civilians were wounded during the Russian projectile strike, Ukraine’s second war-time president said.
Zelensky said Russia fired a salvo of seven rockets at the city of nearly 1 million. Two of the projectiles were intercepted.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a news conference at a central Kyiv subway station on April 23. (Public Domain)
The Russian bombardment came on the eve of when eastern rite Christians celebrate Easter.
At midnight on April 24, Kremlin despot Vladimir Putin was pictured by Russian state media attending church services after the killings in Odesa.
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends Easter church services on April 24, 2022. (Ria Novosti)
“We believe in the victory of life over death,” Zelensky said. “No matter how fierce the battles are, there is no chance for death to defeat life. Everyone knows that. Every Christian knows that.”
Putin ordered a renewed invasion of the country in February as part of a war he has waged against the neighboring country since 2014 when Russian troops forcibly seized Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula and occupied parts of the two easternmost regions of Luhansk and Donetsk.
A situational war map of Ukraine. (Ukraine War Map).
