Russia missile attack kills 19, including 9 kids, in Ukraine: This can never be forgiven

Russia targeted the home city of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky overnight Saturday, in a ballistic missile strike that killed at least 19 people, including nine children — one of the deadliest attacks on the frontline metropolis since the war began.A residential neighborhood was leveled during the onslaught on Kryvyi Rih, where at least 72 people were also injured, one of the youngest among them a 3-month-old baby, officials said.“There were dead children lying there, crying parents — it was horrible,” a 47-year-old woman named Yulia told Reuters.Zelensky remembered the youngest of the dead Saturday.“Three-year-old Timofiy, unfortunately, died today in the hospital.Seven-year-old Radyslav.

Arina, who will also be 7 forever.Nine-year-old German.

Fifteen-year-old Danylo.Fifteen-year-old Nikita.

Fifteen-year-old Alina.Konstantin, who will be 16 forever.

Nikita is 17 years old,” he wrote Saturday on X of the youngest of the dead.“There is simply no deeper level of cynicism, vileness, or hatred toward people than what Russia embodies today,” Zelensky added.The Iskander-M — a short-range ballistic missile — also left a gaping crater in the city, damaged two dozen apartment buildings, six educational institutions, more than 30 cars, shops and a restaurant, Kryvyi Rih Gov.Serhii Lysak posted on social media.“This can never be forgiven,” Oleksandr Vilkul, head of the city’s military administration, said on Telegram.Russian officials claimed the attack killed 85 and was a high-precision strike on a restaurant where a gathering of military commanders and Western instructors were meeting, according to reports.But the Ukrainian Armed Forces debunked the claims as “false information” in an attempt to “cover up its cynical crime.”The military said on Facebook that Russia fired a warhead that was “intended to affect a larger area and a larger number of people.”Kryvyi Rih, the second-largest city in the Dnipropetrovsk region, has...