{"id":5638,"date":"2023-06-04T20:42:46","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T15:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=5638"},"modified":"2023-06-04T20:42:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T15:42:48","slug":"moscow-strike-kills-toddler-in-dnipro-russian-border-district-evacuates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/world\/moscow-strike-kills-toddler-in-dnipro-russian-border-district-evacuates\/","title":{"rendered":"Moscow strike kills toddler in Dnipro, Russian border district evacuates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kyiv, Ukraine, June 4 : Ukrainian rescuers outside the city of Dnipro on Sunday recovered the body of a two-year-old girl from the rubble left by a Russian strike on a residential area.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other side of the border, Russian authorities asked villagers living in a heavily shelled district on the Ukraine border to leave their homes after deadly strikes prompted thousands to flee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Russian attack that hit the Pidhorodnenska suburb of the central city of Dnipro on Saturday came as Moscow has this week intensified aerial assaults on Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“At night, a girl’s body was retrieved from under the rubble of a house in the Pidhorodnenska community” outside Dnipro, Serhiy Lysak, governor of Dnipropetrovsk region, said on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“She just turned two.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Officials said the strike killed the toddler, born in 2021, and wounded at least 22 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Five children were in hospital, including three boys who were in a critical condition, they added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kyiv also said a Russian strike had hit an airfield in central Ukraine overnight, which Moscow appeared to confirm on Sunday, saying it had struck military air bases with long-range weapons overnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attacks came at the end of a week that saw Russia launch a series of air assaults on Kyiv, including rare day-time strikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conflict, which has dragged on for more than 15 months, has escalated this week with increased attacks on both sides of the border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kyiv has for months said it is preparing for a major counteroffensive against Moscow’s forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Volodymyr Zelensky has said the country is “ready” but pleaded for more Western weapons to counter Russia’s air superiority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a video published Sunday, the Ukrainian army appeared to call on soldiers to stay silent and said there will be no announcement on the start of the long-awaited offensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Plans love silence,” Deputy Defence Minister Ganna Malyar said on Telegram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The start will not be announced,” she added, accompanying the video showing soldiers placing fingers on their mouths.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kyiv, Ukraine, June 4 : Ukrainian rescuers outside the city of Dnipro on Sunday recovered the body of a two-year-old girl from the rubble left by a Russian strike on a residential area. On the other side of the border, Russian authorities asked villagers living in a heavily shelled district on the Ukraine border to […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":5639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,73,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-security","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}