7 killed, 9 injured in Russian shelling in Ukraine

KYIV: FEB. 24 – At least seven people have been killed and nine others injured by Russian shelling, Ukrainian authorities said Thursday.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Thursday he had appealed to world leaders to impose all possible sanctions on Russia, including on President Vladimir Putin personally, saying that the Kremlin leader wanted to destroy the Ukrainian state.

Russian forces fired missiles at several cities in Ukraine and landed troops on its coast Thursday, officials and media said, after President Putin authorized what he called a special military operation in the east of Ukraine.