Multiple rockets reportedly struck two schools and several houses in Ukraine’s Chernihiv region Thursday — and a car’s dashcam recorded the entire thing. Twenty-two bodies have reportedly been recovered from the site.
The dashcam footage, obtained by the New York Post, shows a huge blast occurring ahead of the car, with at least six rockets headed toward the city. The video also shows civilians emerging from smoke after the attack.
The region’s governor, Viacheslav Chaus, initially reported nine dead, but the number has been updated as more bodies were discovered. The blast also left several injured.
“Many apartment buildings were damaged, windows were broken, walls, roofs, balconies were damaged, walls and ceilings were destroyed in some places,” he wrote in an online post titled “Half an hour ago, Russian troops launched a missile strike on a high-rise residential area in the city center.”
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“There are NO military facilities nearby. Nearby are hospitals, several schools and kindergartens, dozens of high-rise buildings,” he said.
“Rescuers are working on the spot. Information about victims and injured is being clarified,” he added.
The exact buildings attacked were not confirmed.
On Thursday, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters that Russian forces haven’t advanced much toward Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv.
“As for the last time we saw them make appreciable [gains], it’s probably been two to three days before the last time that we thought that they made any major geographical distance toward Kyiv,” he said.
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Kirby also said the Russian troops are “flummoxed and they have been frustrated.”
