Serhiivka Missile Strike
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On 1 July 2022, at 01:00 AM (
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), a Russian missile hit a residential building and two missiles hit a recreational center in
Serhiivka Serhiivka ( uk, Сергіївка) may refer to the following places in Ukraine: Chernihiv Oblast *Serhiivka, Chernihiv Oblast Donetsk Oblast *Serhiivka, Donetsk Oblast Dnipropetrovsk Oblast *Serhiivka, Dnipro Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast *Serhi ...
, in Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion ( Odesa Oblast). The missile strike killed at least 21 people (including a 12-year-old boy). The event has signs of a war crime. July 2 was declared a day of mourning in the region.


Course of events

According to preliminary information, three Tu-22M3 aircraft of the
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flew from the
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to
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, and after fired three Kh-22s, supersonic anti-ship missiles designed for use against aircraft carriers, in the direction of the
Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi ( uk, Бі́лгород-Дністро́вський, Bílhorod-Dnistróvskyy, ; ro, Cetatea Albă), historically known as Akkerman ( tr, Akkerman) or under different names, is a city, municipality and port situated on ...
district to the resort
Serhiivka Serhiivka ( uk, Сергіївка) may refer to the following places in Ukraine: Chernihiv Oblast *Serhiivka, Chernihiv Oblast Donetsk Oblast *Serhiivka, Donetsk Oblast Dnipropetrovsk Oblast *Serhiivka, Dnipro Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast *Serhi ...
village. One missile hit a 9-story residential building, completely destroying one section. The fire spread from the apartment building to the attached store. The second missile hit a recreation center in the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi region. The fire did not start at the recreation center. As a result of these strikes, a rehabilitation center for children administered by
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in the village was hit. One of its workers died and five others were injured.


Victims

According to preliminary data, at least 16 Ukrainian civilians were killed in the residential building and at least 5 (including a 12 year old boy) in the recreation center. 38 were injured (including 6 children). In addition to people, pets also have died.


Reactions

2 July was declared a day of mourning in the region. The
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condemned the attack and gave information about the damages the Moldovan rehabilitation center had suffered.
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also condemned the attack, and said that the Romanian authorities would be in contact with its Moldovan partners. Ukrainian President
Zelenskyy Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy, ; russian: Владимир Александрович Зеленский, Vladimir Aleksandrovich Zelenskyy, (born 25 January 1978; also transliterated as Zelensky or Zelenskiy) is a Ukrainian politicia ...
accused Russia of having committed "an act of conscious, deliberately targeted Russian terror – and not some kind of mistake." He noted that as in the recent
Kremenchuk shopping mall attack On 27 June 2022, the Russian Armed Forces fired two Kh-22 anti-ship missiles into central Kremenchuk, Poltava Oblast, hitting the Amstor shopping mall and the Kredmash road machinery plant. A fire broke out and the attack killed at least 20 ...
, the Russian army used unnecessarily powerful weapons to strike a civilian object: "These missiles, Kh-22, were designed to destroy aircraft carriers and other large warships, and the Russian army used them against an ordinary nine-story building with ordinary civilian people." Official representative of Germany described the missile strike as an "inhumane and cynical" war crime. A spokesman of the Russian Presidency, Dmitry Peskov, denied that Russia was attacking civilian objects in Ukraine and said that the targeted buildings were used for military purposes.
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visited the locations and studied satellite imagery, finding no evidence that the targeted buildings were used by the military.


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