Explainer | Russia’s deadliest missile attacks on Ukraine
- Russian missile strike on a Ukraine village killed 51 on Thursday during memorial to fallen soldier
- Moscow has denied deliberately targeting civilians, but many have been killed in strikes
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Ukraine says Russian strike killed over 50 in one of the deadliest attacks of the war
Since the start of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian military has repeatedly used missiles to blast civilian targets across the country, with devastating consequences.
One of the deadliest such attacks happened Thursday when President Volodymyr Zelensky and other top officials in Kyiv reported that a Russian rocket struck a cafe and store in the village of Hroza in eastern Ukraine, killing at least 51 civilians.
Zelensky called the attack “absolute evil” in his nightly video address.
The Kremlin often claims its missiles are aimed at military assets or blames the strikes on Ukraine. A spokesman for President Vladimir Putin insists Russia does not target civilians.
A look at some of the deadliest strikes:
Izium: March 9, 2022
A residential building in Izium in eastern Ukraine was hit in an attack that Human Rights Watch later said killed at least 44 people.
