Russia has hit Ukraine with a deadly hypersonic missile strike as Kyiv claims local women were spying for Moscow.
, two Russian hypersonic missiles damaged an apartment building and a hotel popular with international journalists covering the war. Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the regional military administration in the Donetsk region, said seven people were killed in the Monday evening strike with 81 more wounded, including two children.
"All of were there because they were needed, putting their efforts into rescuing people after the first strike," Ivan Vyhivskyi, Ukraine's National Police chief, said according to The Associated Press."They knew that under the rubble were the injured — they needed to react, to dig, to retrieve, to save, and the enemy deliberately struck the second time."
Lydia, her 75-year-old neighbor, said a window fell onto her, leaving her back, knee and legs cut up.
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