At least five members of same family killed in Russian missile attack, Zelensky says

BBC:

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has branded a Russian missile attack that killed five members of the same family a “horrific crime”.

Zelensky shared a picture of the Voronov family on social media, writing that parents Artem and Olena and three of their children – Mark, Azariah Ilay, and Emilia – had all been killed after a missile decimated their home.

Their other children – Zakhar, Dominika, Viorika, Federica, and a grandson Artem – are also still missing after Russia launched more than 70 missiles and over 280 drones overnight.

The worst attack was near Zelensky’s hometown of Kryvyi Rih.

The attack – which officials said had killed eight people- comes after Zelensky met US President Donald Trump in Washington DC this week to urge the US to grant Ukraine a licence to produce Patriot interceptor missiles.

“Today, the Russians destroyed an ordinary home of an ordinary family in Radushne near Kryvyi Rih in our Dnipropetrovsk region with a strike from their ballistic missile,” Zelensky wrote on X on Thursday.

“It is definitively known that the parents and three children perished. The Russian missile strike was so powerful that almost nothing remained of the house… Under the rubble, fragments of human bodies were found, and only forensic examinations can determine to whom exactly in the family those bodies belong.