Rescuers found more bodies Friday, taking total to 31 dead from Thursday’s bombardment of Ukraine’s capital.
KYIV—The first official death toll from Russia’s aerial bombardment of Ukraine’s capital early Thursday stood at six, including Matviy Marchenko, a 6-year-old boy who died in an ambulance.
By Friday morning, more than a day after the missile-and-drone assaults, rescuers sifting through the rubble of collapsed buildings had raised the total killed to 31, making the strikes one of the worst bombardments of Russia’s 3½ year war. The dead included four more children, one of them two years old.
“Once again, this vile strike by Russia demonstrates the need for increased pressure on Moscow and additional sanctions,”
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