Zelensky says Russian forces killed 87 people in an attack.

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said on Monday that 87 people had been killed in an attack last week in the Chernihiv region north of the capital, Kyiv, in what appears to be one of the deadliest single incidents for the country since Russia invaded three months ago.

On May 17, local officials said that at 5 a.m., Russian forces had fired four missiles from an aircraft at Desna, a settlement on the eastern bank of the Dnieper River, where there is a substantial military training center. Two of the missiles hit a building, said the head of the provincial military administration, Vyacheslav Chaus, at the time.

“We have dead and many wounded,” Mr. Chaus said then.

On Monday, Mr. Zelensky gave the numbers.

“Unfortunately, according to the statistics, we’ve got 87 dead bodies, 87 victims,” he said during questions after he delivered a video address at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Read more

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