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Overnight, Ukraine air defense has shot down 51 out of 92 drones launched by Russia, but a missile strike did hit Krivy Rir, killing at least 19 people, including nine children
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For more, we can speak to our correspondent in the Ukrainian capital, Keev Gulliver-Krag, standing by. Hello to you, Gulliver
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What more do we know about the strike in Krivy Rir? Well, this is the bloodiest strike in quite some time in terms of the number of civilian
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victims. And the reason there were so many children is that a children's playground was
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hit. It was around about 7 p.m. local time yesterday evening, and it was a ballistic
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missile. Now, the Russians on their propaganda channels have been saying that they struck
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a meeting of high-ranking Ukrainian military officers and their foreign advisers. And that
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has angered Ukrainians. The reaction from the Ukrainian military has been to say that that's
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absolutely not true. And they note that the weapon used was a ballistic missile carrying
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cluster munitions, which are designed to kill as many people in a wide radius. So obviously
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we can be sure whether or not there wasn a meeting taking place somewhere in that area But we can be sure that if it was intended to be a targeted strike that was trying to minimize collateral damage that they would not have used that type of weapon So there been a very emotional reaction to this in Ukraine because of
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the numbers of children being killed, particularly because one of the children who was killed is
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three-year-old Timofi, and he was filmed as they were trying to resuscitate him. The whole country
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was hoping he would pull through, and he didn't. In all this, Gulliver, just a reminder, a tragic
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a reminder that any ceasefire is still a long way off? Absolutely. I mean, in this particular
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strike, the Russians were not obviously targeting energy infrastructure. This was a residential area
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of a large Ukrainian city. But according to the Ukrainian side, there have been
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numerous violations of this very limited ceasefire, which is officially in place at the moment
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which is limited to energy infrastructure and port infrastructure. The Ukrainian side haven't
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given details publicly about what elements of energy infrastructure have been targeted since
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the ceasefire went into place. But the foreign minister, Andrew Sabiga, apparently gave his
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American counterpart, Marco Rubio, a detailed lowdown on all the violations they have been
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when they met the day before yesterday in Brussels. All right, Gulliver, thank you very much. Gulliver Craig reporting from Kyiv
