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The death toll is expected to rise in the city of Vinnytsia in central Ukraine after the Russian attacks on the city. One of the victims is a four-year-old girl whose overturned pram has become the latest symbol of the progress of the war.
Pictures of how the girl and her mother walk together are circulating on social media. In front of him, the four-year-old puts his pram, in pink and black. Just a few hours later, she is dead, one of the many victims of the Russian robot shelling against the city, writes The Guardian, among others. The girl’s mother survived the attack, but is seriously injured.
– A girl is one of the dead in Vinnytsia. She was four years old, says Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in his evening speech on Thursday.
At least 20 people have been killed and the death toll is feared to rise, while rescue efforts continue. A total of three children under the age of ten are among the dead, according to Ukraine’s state rescue service.
Many people are injured after Thursday’s attack, several in critical condition, and about forty people are still missing.
The city is located just over 250 km southwest of the capital Kyiv, in the middle of the country and far from the front lines of the war. The attack has been condemned by the EU and the UN.