Russian strike on Ukraine apartment kills 14 as Kyiv and Moscow trade blame over boarding school attack | CNN


Russian strike on Ukraine apartment kills 14 as Kyiv and Moscow trade blame over boarding school attack | CNN

Published 6:35 AM EST, Sun February 2, 2025 CNN — A Russian strike on a residential building in central Ukraine killed at least 14 people, including two children, emergency services said, one of many attacks across the country this weekend. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia targeted the building in Poltava early Saturday morning, calling the attack “another terrorist crime.” There has been no let up in the fighting in Ukraine, even with Donald Trump now in the White House having promised to reach a ceasefire quickly. Ukraine’s army continues to be pushed back on the eastern frontlines in the face of superior Russian manpower and resources. Among the victims of the strike in Poltava was Olena Yavorska, her husband Dmytro and their 9-year-old daughter Sofia, according to Olena’s colleague, who posted a statement on Facebook. “Russia killed our colleague and her family,” Volodymyr Popereshniuk, co-owner of Nova Poshta, a Ukranian logistics company where Olena worked, said Sunday. “Olena was a biology teacher by education, but in 2015 she joined Nova Poshta. The Yavorsky family resided on the second floor of the destroyed building.”