{"id":19295,"date":"2026-05-15T14:42:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T14:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/19295\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T14:42:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T14:42:23","slug":"zelensky-calls-for-russia-to-be-punished-after-strike-on-kyiv-housing-block-kills-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/19295\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky calls for Russia to be punished after strike on Kyiv housing block kills 24"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rescue workers stand in the yard of an apartment building heavily damaged after a Russian strike on residential neighbourhood in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday.Evgeniy Maloletka\/The Associated Press<\/p>\n

President Volodymyr Zelensky called on Friday for Moscow to be punished after laying red roses at the rubble of a Kyiv apartment building where a Russian missile strike killed 24 people, including three children.<\/p>\n

Rescue workers ended search operations at the devastated building, which was struck on Thursday during Russia\u2019s heaviest air attack on the Ukrainian capital this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur first responders … worked non-stop for more than a day,\u201d Zelensky said on the Telegram app after visiting the site in Kyiv\u2019s Darnytskyi district, on the left bank of the Dnipro River, laying flowers and talking to rescue workers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Russians practically levelled an entire section of the building with their missile,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Russia hits Ukraine with largest aerial attack since war began<\/a><\/p>\n

Russia, which began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February, 2022, had launched more than 1,500 drones and dozens of missiles at targets in Ukraine over two consecutive days, according to Ukrainian officials.<\/p>\n

Six people were also killed in western Ukraine, far from the front line.<\/p>\n

\u201cA Russia like this can never be normalized \u2013 a Russia that deliberately destroys lives and hopes to remain unpunished. Pressure is needed,\u201d Zelensky said, reiterating appeals to allies to help Ukraine strengthen its air defences. <\/p>\n

Moscow\u2019s Defence Ministry said its forces had carried out massive strikes on Ukraine on May 12-15, the Russian state news agency RIA reported.<\/p>\n

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A woman places flowers at a makeshift memorial at the site of an apartment building where 24 residents were killed, in Kyiv.Valentyn Ogirenko\/Reuters<\/p>\n

Kyiv officials declared Friday a day of mourning, with national flags at half-mast across the city of 3 million. All entertainments were cancelled or postponed.<\/p>\n

Residents brought flowers, stuffed animals and sweets to a makeshift memorial at the destroyed housing block.<\/p>\n

The Interior Ministry said hundreds of rescuers had sifted through 3,000 cubic metres of rubble in 28 hours of searching.<\/p>\n

City officials said 24 bodies had been recovered and about 30 people rescued alive. Nearly 50 people were wounded, and about 400 required psychological support, the ministry said. <\/p>\n

\u201cMy friend lived on the second floor. They found her around 7 p.m. \u2013 I don\u2019t remember exactly \u2013 along with her husband,\u201d said Tetiana Prudyus, 34, who had brought red roses.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know a lot of people here … I want to say one thing,\u201d she said, holding back tears. \u201cEven after this, we won\u2019t surrender. We\u2019re a very strong nation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zelensky has said initial analysis shows the building was hit by a recently made Russian Kh-101 missile.<\/p>\n

Moscow denies deliberately targeting civilians but during more than four years of war it has frequently hit residential buildings and other civilian infrastructure all over Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Ukraine has also carried out drone attacks on Russia. Four people, including a child, were killed in an attack on the central Russian city of Ryazan on Friday that damaged high-rise apartment buildings and hit an unnamed industrial enterprise, the regional governor said.<\/p>\n

Ukraine said it had struck a Russian oil refinery in Ryazan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Rescue workers stand in the yard of an apartment building heavily damaged after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1620,1608,1621,847,1600,1622,1619,1599,1614,1615,1611,1601,1598,49,193,150,1613,1606,1633,1602,1603,477,1609,1610,1295,1623,1605,1628,1629,1631,1626,1630,1624,1627,1604,1297,1617,47,1616,1625,5,1607,290,1618,1612,257,173,1632],"class_list":{"0":"post-19295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-alberta","9":"tag-arts-news","10":"tag-bc","11":"tag-breaking-news","12":"tag-breaking-news-video","13":"tag-british-columbia","14":"tag-canada","15":"tag-canada-news","16":"tag-canada-sports","17":"tag-canada-sports-news","18":"tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","19":"tag-canadian-breaking-news","20":"tag-canadian-news","21":"tag-economy","22":"tag-education","23":"tag-environment","24":"tag-federal-government","25":"tag-foreign-news","26":"tag-globe-and-mail","27":"tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","28":"tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","29":"tag-government","30":"tag-life-news","31":"tag-lifestyle","32":"tag-local-news","33":"tag-manitoba","34":"tag-national-news","35":"tag-new-brunswick","36":"tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","37":"tag-northwest-territories","38":"tag-nova-scotia","39":"tag-nunavut","40":"tag-ontario","41":"tag-pei","42":"tag-photos","43":"tag-political-news","44":"tag-political-opinion","45":"tag-politics","46":"tag-politics-news","47":"tag-quebec","48":"tag-russia","49":"tag-sports-news","50":"tag-technology","51":"tag-travel","52":"tag-trudeau","53":"tag-us-news","54":"tag-world-news","55":"tag-yukon"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}