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Among the dead in Pryluky were five children, three of them infants, according to the latest information from local authorities. One of the children died along with his mother and grandmother.
At least 50 other people were reported injured when residential buildings were hit. The number of victims is expected to increase as rescue operations continue.
The overnight wave of attacks also reportedly killed around 25 other people and injured dozens of civilians in Kremenchuk in the Poltava region, Kyiv and Oleksandriia in the Kirovohrad region.
According to the latest data, 15,280 civilians were killed or injured in Ukraine during the first eight months of this year.
Children are always in danger
“Families should not live in the horror of seeing their children constantly in danger or buried under the rubble of their own home. “This pattern of increasing harm to civilians must end,” said the top UN official in the country Matthias Schmale in a statement. statement.
On October 5 and 6, airstrikes hit hospitals in Kryvyi Rih and ambulances in Kramatorsk, injuring health workers.
Ukrainian Red Cross workers were also injured while traveling to help people affected by the attacks in Zaporizhzhia.
Violation of international law
“Civilians, including children, homes and critical civilian infrastructure are protected under international humanitarian lawMr. Schmale repeated.
While briefing journalists in New York on Wednesday, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said the Secretary-General strongly condemned the ongoing attacks. He also expressed deep concern over the rising number of civilian casualties.
“All attacks targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure, wherever they occur, are a violation of international humanitarian law and must end immediately,” Dujarric said.
Humanitarian response
Humanitarian teams in Ukraine reported that attacks and hostilities on the front lines over the previous 24 hours had caused more than 150 civilian casualties.
During the first eight months of this year, the UN and its humanitarian partners assisted 1.5 million people affected by attacks across Ukraine, as attacks continued to escalate and spread to areas far from the front lines.
