Zelensky: Two people were killed in a rocket attack on Pavlohrad

Author:
Anna Kholodnova
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Two people were killed in a rocket attack on Pavlohrad, as the President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video message on May 1.

Pavlohrad, Dnipropetrovsk region. Terrorist rockets took the lives of two people, very young boys... My condolences to the families! Another forty people — women, children, men — received help after being wounded and traumatized," he noted and added that the Russians would receive a response for each such strike.

  • Around 2:30 a.m. on May 1, the Russian invaders attacked Ukraine with 18 missiles from strategic aircraft. Ukrainian air defense forces destroyed 15 of them.
  • In Pavlohrad, Russian rockets damaged an industrial enterprise. A fire broke out there, it was extinguished by rescuers. In the residential area of the city, 19 high-rise buildings, 25 private houses, six schools and preschools, and five shops were damaged.