Zelenskyy: Russia has already launched 2,960 missiles on Ukraine
IRYNA BALACHUK – WEDNESDAY, 13 JULY 2022, 15:30
As of the morning of 13 July, Russia has already launched almost 3,000 missiles of different types on peaceful Ukrainian cities.
Source: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, in a video address to the National Assembly of the Korean Republic
Details: The President has reported that Russia is terrorising Ukraine with artillery and missile strikes.
Quote: "The missile terror. 2,960 missiles as of this morning – such is the quantity of missiles that Russia has launched on our cities. Civilian facilities are the main target of these missiles."
Details: Zelenskyy called upon those present, asking them to imagine how a huge anti-ship missile designed to destroy aircraft carriers hits an ordinary shopping mall or a school. He added that there have been hundreds of such attacks on Ukraine.
Zelenskyy thinks that such actions are a Russian tactic aimed at driving Ukrainian people out of their cities and making every Ukrainian fear the aggressor state.
Background:
- On 9 July the occupiers launched an attack on Chasiv Yar in Donetsk Oblast with Uragan multiple rocket launchers. They hit a 5-storey apartment block. As of 13 July, 47 bodies have been retrieved from under the debris, among them 1 child.
- The Ministry of Defence of Russia claimed that with the missile strike on Chasiv Yar Russia had allegedly "eliminated over three hundred nationalists".