Russia launched a scary and ferocious attack on Ukraine on Monday, October 10, 2022, following the Crimean bridge blast. Missile strikes in several cities in Ukraine including Kyiv yesterday resulted in 19 deaths and over a hundred people being injured.
#UPDATE At least 19 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in Russian strikes across Ukraine on Monday, Ukraine's emergency services said pic.twitter.com/WDCwvSnJjm
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) October 11, 2022
Where were the attacks reported? Missile attacks were reported in Ukraine's Kyiv, Lviv, Ternopil, Zhytomyr, Dnipro, Kremenchuk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kharkiv.
The dash cam captures the moment when a #Russian missile hits one of the electrical facilities in the city of #Lvov. Most of the city doesn't still have electricity to this moment.#Ukraine #UkraineRussiaWar️ pic.twitter.com/oVURHjaU6J
— Like Rst ✊☠ (@rst_like) October 11, 2022
The Monday attack by Russia has the world alarmed.
US President Joe Biden spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday and condemned the Russian strikes and pledged continued US security assistance including advanced air defense systems, reported CNN.
Here are the latest updates on the war:
#UPDATE Ravina Shamdasani, a spokeswoman for the UN human rights office, told reporters in Geneva, that intentionally targeting civilians and civilian objects, "amounts to a war crime" pic.twitter.com/grKVBkGZoj
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) October 11, 2022
Ukraine cannot be intimidated. We united even more instead. Ukraine cannot be stopped. We are convinced even more that terrorists must be neutralized. Now the occupiers are not capable of opposing us on the battlefield already, that is why they resort to this terror- @ZelenskyyUa pic.twitter.com/Rndgc4Xdof
— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) October 10, 2022
In UNGA, India voted in favour of a procedural vote called by Albania to have an open vote instead of Russia's demand for a secret ballot on a draft resolution on Ukraine
— ANI (@ANI) October 11, 2022
India voted 'Yes'. 24 countries (incl China, Iran and Russia) did not cast their vote. pic.twitter.com/QJqoAwmCaj
Since the state that commits war crimes is allowed to exercise Soviet veto right in Security Council, global architecture’s been razed to the ground; now it looks like a crater in downtown Kyïv. UN isn’t a building, it’s a body of Govts. Follow what your Govt says in UNGA today! https://t.co/JqVdAa419V pic.twitter.com/OBiaaTd1zE
— Sergiy Kyslytsya (@SergiyKyslytsya) October 10, 2022
Our response to media queries on escalation of conflict in Ukraine:https://t.co/LoELjRwDEm pic.twitter.com/jCNHw95UKw
— Arindam Bagchi (@MEAIndia) October 10, 2022
Demonstrators gathered in Skopje on Oct. 10 to protest Russia after it launched missile attacks across Ukraine.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) October 11, 2022
People holding banners in support of Ukraine and Ukrainian flags gathered near the Russian Embassy in the Macedonian capital.
📸Robert Atanasovki/ Getty Images pic.twitter.com/hEpyOpR02Z
Context: Russia has accused Ukraine of blowing up a strategic bridge in Russian-occupied Crimea. However, Ukraine has not claimed responsibility for the bridge blast. The bridge connected Crimea (a peninsula in the south of Ukraine) to the rest of Ukraine.