{"id":5190,"date":"2025-04-05T15:58:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T15:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/republicanstradetoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/05\/at-least-16-dead-including-6-children-in-russian-missile-strike-on-zelenskys-hometown-say-ukrainian-authorities\/"},"modified":"2025-04-05T15:58:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T15:58:34","slug":"at-least-16-dead-including-6-children-in-russian-missile-strike-on-zelenskys-hometown-say-ukrainian-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/republicanstradetoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/05\/at-least-16-dead-including-6-children-in-russian-missile-strike-on-zelenskys-hometown-say-ukrainian-authorities\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 16 dead, including 6 children, in Russian missile strike on Zelensky\u2019s hometown, say Ukrainian authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm937my4l001r26qj6ujwf21a@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            A Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian president\u2019s hometown of Kryvyi Rih on Friday killed at least 16 people, including six children, according to Ukrainian authorities. The strike also injured over 50 people.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm93854bo00013j6no3bgwtyd@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky offered his condolences to the families of those killed and injured in his nightly address soon afterward.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm938572600033j6n915gnaev@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cMany injured, houses damaged. The missile actually hit the area next to residential buildings \u2013 a children\u2019s playground, ordinary streets,\u201d Zelensky said.    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/image\/instances\/cm93a4n8c00023b6mnjlcv2bs@published\" class=\"image_medium portrait image_medium__hide-placeholder\" data-image-variation=\"image_medium\" data-name=\"c-still_21520102_10184.811_still.jpg\" data-component-name=\"image\" data-observe-resizes=\"\" data-breakpoints=\"{&quot;image_medium--eq-extra-small&quot;: 115, &quot;image_medium--eq-small&quot;: 300, &quot;image_medium--eq-large&quot;: 660}\" data-original-ratio=\"1.776978417266187\" data-original-height=\"988\" data-original-width=\"556\" data-url=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-still-21520102-10184-811-still.jpg?c=original\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"image_medium__container \" data-image-variation=\"image_medium\" data-breakpoints=\"{&quot;image_medium--eq-extra-small&quot;: 115, &quot;image_medium--eq-small&quot;: 300, &quot;image_medium--show-credits&quot;: 525}\">           <\/div>\n<div class=\"image_medium__metadata\">\n<div class=\"image_medium__caption attribution\">    <span data-editable=\"metaCaption\" class=\"inline-placeholder\">Footage shows moments after Russian strike which killed 16, including 6 children, in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine<\/span>  <\/div><figcaption class=\"image_medium__credit\">Telegram<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm93859rh00053j6nkdktpy4b@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Russia also targeted a power plant in Kherson with a drone on Friday, Zelensky said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm9385fhk00073j6nnw9uzit2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cSuch strikes cannot be a coincidence \u2013 Russians know that this is an energy facility,\u201d Zelensky said. \u201cThese types of facilities must be protected from any attacks, as per the promises Russia made to the American side.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm9385j8j00093j6nr7mbiagf@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            In a statement on Telegram, the Russian ministry of defense claimed the strike had targeted a meeting between Ukrainian and Western officers, describing it as \u201ca high-precision strike\u2026 with a high-explosive missile on the site of a meeting with unit commanders and Western instructors in one of the restaurants in the city of Kryvyi Rih.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm939txq300043b5vwlq7jhbq@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">             \u201cAs a result of the strike, the enemy lost up to 85 servicemen and officers of foreign countries, as well as up to 20 vehicles,\u201d the post claimed.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm939vjf400073b5vowammuxb@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            <em>This is a developing story and will be updated. <\/em>    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian president\u2019s hometown of Kryvyi Rih on Friday killed at least 16 people, including six children, according to Ukrainian authorities. The strike also injured over 50 people. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky offered his condolences to the families of those killed and injured in his nightly address soon afterward. \u201cMany&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/republicanstradetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/republicanstradetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/republicanstradetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/republicanstradetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/republicanstradetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/republicanstradetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/republicanstradetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/republicanstradetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/republicanstradetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/republicanstradetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}