A heartbreaking photo shows a man crying over the lifeless, bloodied body of a woman in southwestern Ukraine after she was killed in a Russian drone strike Friday — as a hospital in the country’s capital was targeted in another barbaric attack.
The overnight blitz in Odesa, Zaporizhzhia and Kyiv killed at least three people and injured dozens more. It comes after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Thursday that his military was once again facing speed restrictions when operating SpaceX’s Starshield military system.
In the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odesa, strikes killed two women, aged 44 and 50, and destroyed a house, an animal and veterinary clinic building, a warehouse and several cars, according to The Ukrainian National News Agency.
An agonizing photo shows a man slumped over the body of one of the women killed. Blood can be seen streaked across her face and in her hair.
In the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, two people were killed — including a teenage boy — and more than 50 people, including eight children, were injured in a blitz on a residential apartment tower and an industrial facility, according to Ukrainska Pravada.
In the center of the war-torn nation’s capital, three people were injured when a drone struck a medical facility. The attack was located near several Western embassies.
The Russian bombardment came after Zelenskyy said that SpaceX’s Starshield system had been once again throttled, making it more difficult for Ukraine to shoot down drones.
The issue was the same that hit Ukraine last month when Kyiv’s military experienced limited connectivity for equipment traveling faster than roughly 100 mph. The disruption sparked a blame game between SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and the Trump administration, who each claimed the other was the one responsible for the restriction.
The Friday morning Kyiv attack also reportedly blew out the windows of the nearby National Academy of Arts and narrowly missed patients, who had to be evacuated by firefighters through a smoky haze, according to one witness.
“We were asleep when there was this massive boom. We all jumped out of bed straight away,” the man, named Oleksandr, told The Guardian.
“There was glass all over the floor. People were running about … If it had hit a little further to the left it would have been much worse. We felt the shock wave.”
Ukraine, meanwhile, launched nearly 1,200 dronesat Russian targets overnight in one of the largest coordinated barrages since it was invaded five years ago.
Moscow claimed it shot down the vast majority of the long-range drones, but said strikes on three regions killed seven people, including a 12-year-old, and wounded 17.
With Post wires
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