Ukraine war: Six latest developments linked to Russia's invasion
Ukraine's Defence Ministry on Friday posted a video of a 4-year-old girl named Liza, who has been named as one of the victims of a Russian missile attack on the central city of Vinnytsia the previous day.
The video claims to show some of the last minutes of Liza's life. It was taken by her mother Iryna who was badly injured during the strike.
Russian missiles struck Vinnytsia on Thursday, killing at least 23 people and wounding more than 100 others far from the front lines, Ukrainian authorities said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Liza was among those killed. The video of the little girl, pushing her stroller while walking with mother was widely shared on social media.
"Today, our hearts are bleeding, and our eyes are full of tears because our family of many thousands has lost one of our own," the charity Down Syndrome wrote.
Zelenskyy accused Russia of deliberately targeting civilians in locations without military value.
"They were just on their way from a speech therapy class, and they just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time," the president said in his video address.
Zelenskyy's wife Olena Zelenska later posted that she had met this "wonderful girl" while filming a Christmas video with a group of children, who were given oversized ornaments to paint.
80 people remain in hospitals after a Russian missile attack on a residential area in the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia, according to the government..
Rescue teams with sniffer dogs combed through debris on Friday in the central Ukrainian city looking for people still missing.
Russia's Defence Ministry claimed on Friday its strikes on the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia had struck a building where Kyiv military officials were meeting with foreign delegates.
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