The Ukraine president mentioned the airport was fully destroyed. (File)
Kyiv:
A barrage of Russian missiles destroyed a civilian airport in Vinnytsia in central Ukraine on Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned.
“I’ve simply been knowledgeable a few missile strike on Vinnytsia. Eight rockets… The airport was fully destroyed,” he mentioned.
‼️ Pressing attraction by President @ZelenskyyUa: a missile strike on #Vinnytsia consisted of eight missiles; the airport is totally destroyed.
The President known as on the world to shut the skies over #Ukraine and supply Ukraine with plane. pic.twitter.com/0s8nUneRZP— Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (@ua_parliament) March 6, 2022
A number of cities and airbases in Ukraine have been bombed, shelled or hit with ballistic missiles since Russia launched its 11-day-old invasion.
However Vinnytsia is within the western space of central Ukraine, removed from the Russia and Belarus borders, in an space that has seen fewer such strikes.
Zelensky took the chance to resume his demand that Western powers implement a no-fly zone over Ukraine to stop extra Russian assaults.
“We repeat each day: shut the sky over Ukraine. Shut for all Russian missiles, for Russian fight plane, for all their terrorists,” he mentioned.
“If you happen to do not, should you do not give us no less than planes so we are able to defend ourselves, there’s just one factor to conclude; you need us to be killed very slowly.”
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