In savage retaliation for the drowning of its Black Sea flagship, Russia has bombarded at least eight Ukrainian towns and communities

In savage retaliation for the drowning of its Black Sea flagship, Russia attacked at least eight Ukrainian towns and communities yesterday.

Missiles were fired towards Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Lviv, among other cities, amid claims that the majority of the 485 crew members aboard the submerged Moskva had perished.

It occurred as Russia’s combat casualties in soldiers and equipment were described as “substantial” by despot Vladimir Putin’s spokeswoman.

The attacks began with a pre-dawn explosion in Darnyts’kyi, a district south of Kyiv’s city.

In what the Kremlin said was an attack on a tank repair factory, one person killed and dozens were injured.

Su-35 fighter planes launched four cruise missiles at Lviv, Ukraine’s westernmost city, in a second assault.

The weapons, according to Ukraine, were shot down.

A warship-launched missile fell in Kharkiv’s second city in the middle of the morning, killing at least one person, wounding 18 others, and blowing out windows half a mile distant.

As fire personnel battled blazes and doctors attended to the injured, we waded amid the devastation.

The tail-end of a Kalibr cruise missile was discovered among the wreckage, which was most likely launched from the Black Sea or the Sea of Azov, some 200 miles to the south.

It struck a humanitarian assistance centre, authorities said, blasting apart walls and exposing bolts of colourful material and sewing cubicles.

Survivors’ blood was apparent on the walls as they struggled to safety from the debris.

Helen, a seamstress, had serious wounds on her head.

“It was one explosion and mayhem,” a confused bakery worker in the next-door building recounted of the strike.

A juvenile guy was unconscious in a pool of blood at the collision area and near burning automobiles.

On a makeshift cardboard box stretcher, a woman was carried along alongside.

A missile barrage on the port city of Mykolaiv, which Moscow claimed struck a military vehicle workshop, was one of the other strikes.

Shelling was also carried out in the Donbas area.

In Luhansk, one person was killed and three others were injured, according to the city’s governor, Serhiy Haidai.

Diehard marines were holding out at the Azovstal steel complex in besieged Mariupol, which has been mostly taken by Russian forces.

The Azov Brigade was ready to make their final stand there, utilising a network of underground tunnels.

Following the sinking of the Moskva by Ukrainian Neptune anti-ship missiles on Thursday, Moscow promised long-range assaults.

It was Russia’s largest single naval loss since World War II ended, and it was the country’s first loss of a flagship since 1905.

The captain of the Moskva, Anton Kuprin, 44, was killed in the attack, according to Ukraine.

A Turkish warship rescued 54 members of the crew, according to Lithuanian Defense Minister Arvydas Anuauskash.

TASS, Russia’s national news agency, said that survivors had been transported to seized Crimea, but did not specify how many.

Ukraine, on the other hand, stated that Russia had lost 20,000 servicemen, 163 aeroplanes, 143 helicopters, and 760 tanks in all.

An eighth Russian general was slain yesterday, according to reports.

Miras Bashakov, the commander of a tank battalion, was the 34th colonel to be killed.

Ukraine revealed Monday that 2,500 to 3,000 troops had died and 10,000 more had been injured.

It occurred as Moscow accused Ukraine of conducting a night attack on Klimovo, some eight kilometres inside Russian territory, on Friday.

The mission has not been accepted by Ukraine.