3-Month-Old Baby Killed By Russian Missile Reportedly Targeting Civilians

A three-month-old baby and her mother were killed Sunday in a Russian missile attack reportedly targeting civilians in Ukraine.

Three-month-old Kira and her mother, whose identity was not revealed, were two of the six civilians who were killed in the Ukrainian city of Odessa by a Russian missile. The attack also wounded 18 others, according to parliament member Lesia Vasylenko.

Ukrainian parliament member and former ambassador to NATO Yevheniia Kravchuk said Russian forces “clearly targeted” buildings with civilians in Odessa as the war stretches into its third month.

“Right now Russians are putting artillery, tanks, everything they have and also they bombed civilians to terrorize the whole country,” Kravchuk said on ABC’s This Week. “I mean, they bombed Odessa which is a southern city on the Black Sea yesterday with missiles and the missile clearly targeted the house -- the building where civilians were at, killing 3-months-old child.”

In addition to the bombings, Kravchuk said Russian soldiers were barring Ukrainian troops from evacuating civilians in the besieged city of Mariupol. The parliament member added that Russians were instead forcibly deporting the city’s residents to Russian territory.

“They have pulled these people from Mariupol -- they are put to filtration camps. Men taken -- trying to be forcibly taken to Russian Army to find Ukrainian soldiers, you know, it’s sort of something that can’t be happening in the 21st Century,” she added.

As of Friday, Russian forces killed a total of 2,435 civilians in Ukraine, including 746 men, 469 women, 48 girls and 66 boys. At least 70 children and 1,036 adults were also killed, according to an estimate by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner (OHCHR).

The agency noted that most of the civilian casualties were caused by shelling and missile strokes. The OHCHR said the figures are likely to be considerably higher, adding that locations that are experiencing hostilities have been delaying their report.

The war has displaced over 9.1 million Ukrainians, according to the Ukraine Internal Displacement Report. At least 376,124 Ukrainians have fled to Germany.