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April 18 () –
The toll of victims of the bombing carried out on Wednesday by the Russian Army against the city of Chernigov, in northern Ukraine, has increased to 18 dead and nearly 80 injured, including four children, as confirmed this Thursday by the Ukrainian authorities.
The State Emergency Service (SES) of Ukraine has noted in a message on its Telegram account that among the 77 injured there are three people rescued during the last hours from the rubble of the damaged building, before adding that 1,580 have been removed from the scene. tons of materials.
“Rescue operations are underway,” he stated, which does not rule out the possibility that more victims will be located in the area. “Psychological attention has been given to 58 people,” he concluded in his statement.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky insisted after the attack that “this would not have happened if Ukraine had received a sufficient number of air defense systems and if the world's determination to confront Russian terrorism had been sufficient.”
