Ukraine said at least 13 people were killed by a Russian missile attack on a northern city as Volodymyr Zelenskiy criticized his country’s partners for failing to provide sufficient protection against such strikes.

The Ukrainian president has stepped up calls for more air defense as Kremlin troops exploit Ukraine’s weakness in order to hit targets across the country. More than 60 people were wounded in Wednesday’s attack on the city of Chernihiv, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said on Telegram.

“This wouldn’t have happened, if Ukraine had received enough air defense equipment and if the world’s resolve to counter the Russian terror had also been sufficient,” Zelenskiy said on Telegram.

Ukraine is struggling to fend off the military pressure from Russia in the face of a lack of ammunition with a U.S. aid package stuck in Congress amid internal political maneuvering in Washington. Kyiv also faces an increasing manpower shortage at the front.

Three Russian missiles hit close to the center of Chernihiv this morning, damaging apartment buildings and dozens of cars, regional Governor Vyacheslav Chaus said on local television. The strike occurred close to a busy intersection, which is usually full of traffic and pedestrians, according to Oleksandr Lomako, acting mayor of the city of nearly 300,000 people.

While Vladimir Putin’s forces regularly shell the surrounding region that borders on Russia, missile barrages against the provincial capital, about 127 kilometers (79 miles) north of Kyiv, have been rare. Ukraine has been reinforcing its fortifications in the area to frustrate any potential new Russian invasion.

As rescuers in Chernihiv searched through the debris for missing people, the governor of the Odesa region said Russian forces had staged another attack, just a week after a strike against the Black Sea city left six people dead. No casualties have been reported this time as regional infrastructure was targeted, Oleh Kiper said on Telegram.

—With assistance from Olesia Safronova.

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