“As a birthday ‘gift’ to Putin, the Russian army destroyed a residential building in Pryluky, in the Chernihiv region. It was an ordinary five-story apartment building,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday morning, adding that there may be more victims trapped under the rubble.

PRYLUKY, UKRAINE -- Russian missile and drone strikes pounded Ukraine on Russian leader Vladimir Putin's birthday, leaving dozens of people dead or injured in one of "the most vile" attacks in recent times, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

A Russian attack overnight has damaged a medium-pressure gas pipeline in Pryluky, Chernihiv Oblast, temporarily leaving more than 18,000 of the city's 51,000 residents without gas.

The attacks of the Russian Armed Forces on enterprises of the military-industrial complex (MIC) of Ukraine will intensify. This was announced on October 5 by Cypriot journalist Alex Christoforou.