National Telescope national telescope newspaper
By Bose Adelakun
No fewer than seven people have been killed while 117 others injured following a Russian missile strike on Ukraine’s northern city of Chernihiv on Saturday.
The attack occurred hours after President of the United States of America, Vladimir Putin met Moscow’s top army commanders.
Reacting to the incident, the United Nation’s Humanitarian Coordinator, Denise Brown condemned the attack, describing it as “heinous”
She said, “I condemn this repeated pattern of Russian strikes on populated areas of Ukraine. Attacks directed against civilians or civilian objects are strictly prohibited under international humanitarian law.”
“As of 3:25 pm (1225 GMT), 117 people were injured in the terrorist attack on the centre of Chernihiv, seven of them died,” Oleksandr Lomako, Chernihiv’s acting mayor, said on Telegram.
Viacheslav Chaus, head of the Chernihiv region’s military administration, said on Telegram that a child was among the dead.
Zelensky said the attack hit a square that houses a “polytechnic university, a theatre”.
