Video Captures Final Moments Of 4-year-old Girl Killed In Russian Missile Attack

The final minutes in the life of a four-year-old child killed by Russian missiles were documented on social media by her mother. The woman, too, was severely wounded in the attack on the city of Vinnytsia on Thursday.

Russian missiles launched on the city in central Ukraine killed at least 23 people, including three children. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the attack an "open act of terrorism", Al Jazeera reported.

Ukraine's Ministry of Defence shared the video which captured the moments right before the death of the child, identified as Lisa Dmitrieva, who had Down's syndrome, Sky News reported.

Her mother, Irisha Dmitrieva posted the video on Facebook showing the little girl pushing a stroller as they walked together. Irisha was taken to the hospital with "her leg torn off."

A woman who claims to be the mother's colleague commented on the post, “Today in Vinnytsia, our employee Irisha Dmitrieva and her little daughter were at the epicenter of the shelling. The daughter died on the spot... Ira is in serious condition in intensive care.”

According to officials in Kyiv, the Thursday attack was carried out using Kalibr cruise missiles that were launched from a Russian submarine in the Black Sea, The Independent reported. There were eight rockets, two of which hit the city center. Dozens of people were injured in the gruesome attack.

The strike on the city, which lies hundreds of miles from the front lines of war, came as European Union officials met in The Hague to consider Russia's war crimes in Ukraine.

Zelenskyy said the attack had once again proven that Russia is a terrorist state and needs to be recognized as one, Al Jazeera reported. “No other state in the world allows itself to destroy peaceful cities and ordinary human life with cruise missiles and rocket artillery every day,” the wartime president said.

“This is terrorism. Deliberate murder of civilians to spread fear. Russia is a terrorist state and must be legally recognized as such,” Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba tweeted.

The strike has not been formally confirmed by Russia. Only six of the dead have been identified so far and 39 individuals are still missing, as per National Police Chief Ihor Klymenko, Sky News reported.