Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 24th Jan. UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Ukraine Dennis Brown on Tuesday condemned the latest round of Russian air strikes on the two biggest cities in the country, which killed at 7 people and wounded dozens more, according to news media reports.
Ms. Brown said in a statement “I was having coffee at home this morning in Kyiv, my neighbors were getting ready for work, children preparing to go to school, when our homes started to shake because of a wave of airstrikes on Kyiv”.
The attacks damaged civilian buildings just next to the UN office in Kyiv, she said.
She added that homes also were damaged and civilians “who were only trying to continue with their lives despite the war are now hospitalized.”
Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv, came under attack. Some 30 residential buildings were reportedly damaged and six people were killed, she added.
Ms. Brown said the UN team on the ground reported that rescuers were trying to find people under the rubble of one of the buildings. The wave of aerial assaults also caused loss and destruction in the Dnipro Region.
“These strikes are yet another bitter reminder of the devastation, suffering and distress that Russia’s invasion is causing for millions of people in Ukraine,” she said.
Ms. Brown stressed that “Brutal and indiscriminate attacks against civilians must stop.”
