Russian forces overnight attacked dozens of Ukrainian cities, killing at least 22 people and injuring 85 others, officials said Tuesday.
July 29 Russian forces overnight attacked dozens of Ukrainian cities, striking a correctional facility in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region and a hospital in Kamianske, killing at least 22 people and injuring 85 others, officials said Tuesday.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine announced the death toll in a statement Tuesday, saying that overnight that Russia attacked 73 Ukrainian cities and villages.
Both Andriy Yermak, the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, and Ivan Fedorov, the governor of Zaporizhzhia, in southeastern Ukraine, confirmed the attack on the correctional facility. Ukraine’s Ministry of Justice identified the facility as the Bilenke Correctional Colony, stating that 17 people were killed and 42 injured in the strike.
«Civilians continue to suffer.
