Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday (23 May) that 87 people had died in a Russian attack on 17 May against a Ukrainian military base in the north of the country.
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Today, under the rubble in Desna, there are 87 victims.
87 corpses, victims who were killed
, ”said Volodymyr Zelensky who spoke by videoconference at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos (Switzerland).
The strike targeted this village which houses a military base, located about sixty kilometers north of kyiv.