Russian missile attack on Ukrainian museum kills at least 2, wounds 10 others

A Russian missile hit a museum building in a Ukrainian city on Tuesday, killing at least two people and injuring 10 others, part of a relentless barrage that comes as Ukraine prepares for an expected spring retaliation Preparing his army for action.

Ukrainian officials said the Russian military used S-300 air defense missiles to attack Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region, striking the museum of local history in the center of the city. The Russian military has repeatedly used the S-300 to attack ground targets, which Ukraine’s air defenses cannot intercept.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky posted a video from the site showing the damaged building and emergency responders examining the damage.

“The terrorist state is doing everything to destroy us completely,” Zelensky said. “Our history, our culture, our people. Killing Ukrainians in absolutely barbaric ways.”

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Zelensky said a museum worker had been killed, and the Kharkiv regional government. Oleh Sinihubov later reported that the body of another victim had been pulled from under the rubble.

Sinihubov said three people were hospitalized and seven received minor injuries.

Kupiansk was captured by Russian forces in the first stages of the Russian offensive, but was recaptured by Ukrainian forces in a surprise counteroffensive in September, in which the Russians were driven out of wide areas of the Kharkiv region.

A smiling Ukrainian soldier stands in a trench on the frontline in the Donetsk region of Ukraine on April 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Libkos)

Russian shelling also killed a woman in the town of Dvorichna near Kupyansk, and two civilians were killed in the eastern Donetsk region, according to the Ukrainian presidential office.

The Ukrainian military is now preparing for a new large-scale counteroffensive, relying on the latest supplies of Western battle tanks and other weapons and fresh troops trained in the West.

Zelensky met with top military officials on Tuesday to discuss the situation on the battlefield as well as the possibility of new arms supplies and troop preparation.

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“We have to speed up the pace of arms deliveries because every day of delay is the life of our soldiers,” Zelensky said on Facebook.

In an interview with RBC-Ukraine released on Monday, Ukraine’s military intelligence chief, Maj. Gen. will see it as “received”.

Meanwhile, the Kremlin has regularly reminded the West about Russia’s nuclear arsenal to discourage the US and its allies from ramping up arms supplies to Ukraine.

In the latest such statement, Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head of the Security Council chaired by Russian President Vladimir Putin, warned on Tuesday that “the world is on the brink of another world war” and declared that Moscow was hesitant to use nuclear weapons. Will not If it faces an existential threat.

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Medvedev described nuclear weapons as vital to Russia’s survival, saying that “for our country, nuclear weapons are what hold the state together.”

He vowed that the Kremlin would achieve its goals in Ukraine and pointed to Russia’s nuclear doctrine, saying it could develop nuclear weapons in response to a nuclear attack or conventional weapons attack that threatens the “existence” of the Russian state. .

“Our potential adversaries should not underestimate this,” Medvedev said.