​Ukraine Asks More Modern Air And Missile Defense Systems To Save Innocent Lives

That is according to the statement made by Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Twitter after Russia’s massive missile attack on the city of Zaporizhzhia.

“Russia continues its missile terror against civilians in Zaporizhzhia. 12 strikes on residential areas overnight, at least 12 killed and many more wounded. We urgently need more modern air and missile defense systems to save innocent lives. I urge partners to speed up deliveries,” the statement reads.

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Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has vowed that those who ordered and issued the “merciless” strikes in Ukraine’s south-eastern city of Zaporizhzhia will be held responsible.

In a post on his Facebook page, he said: “Zaporozhye again. Again merciless strikes on civilians. In residential buildings, just in the middle of the night. There are already 12 dead. 49 injured in hospital, 6 of them children. The absolute meanness of all. Absolute evil.

Inhumans and terrorists. From the one who gave this order, and to all who followed this order. They will be held accountable. A must. Before the law and before the people.”

Later Ukraine’s ministry of defense has posted pictures of the missile strike on the south-eastern city of Zaporizhzhia and stated that if Ukrainian military forces “had modern anti-missile systems”, they “could have prevented such tragedies”.

At this hour we can see that at least 17 people have been killed in a Russian missile attack on Zaporizhzhia overnight. According to initial reports, five private buildings were destroyed and about 40 damaged.

As Defense Express reported earlier, Ukraine to Get Aspide Air-Defense System.

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