At about 10:10 AM on 14 July 2022, an air raid alarm sounded in the city. At approximately 10:42 local residents reported three explosions in the city. Before that, local residents noticed a missile flying over
Bershad city and Vinnytsia. According to Ukrainian authorities, the Russian Naval Forces fired five
Kalibr cruise missiles from a submarine in the Black Sea. Ukraine claims that two of the missiles were shot down. According to Ukrainian officials, the missiles also struck civilian buildings, including a medical center, offices, stores and residential buildings. The attacks killed at least 28 people (including three children), and injured at least 202 others. The
Ministry of Defense of Russia said that they hit the military officers' club, where allegedly "...a meeting of the command of the
Ukrainian Air Force with representatives of foreign arms suppliers was taking place..." According to them, most participants of the meeting were killed. Among the dead were three officers of the Air Force of Ukraine, including Colonels Dmytro Burdiko and Oleg Makarchuk. One of the victims of the attack was Liza Dmytrieva, a 4-year-old Ukrainian girl who was born with
Down syndrome. On the day of the attack, while walking from a speech therapy session with her mother, Liza Dmytrieva was killed in a missile strike in Vinnytsia. Images of her bloodied stroller lying on its side next to her body circulated widely on the Internet. After the missile strike, Liza's mother was hospitalized with injuries and temporarily lost her memory. Liza was buried on 17 July 2022 in the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral in Vinnytsia. Ukrainian president
Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on his Telegram channel: "Vinnytsia. Missile strikes in the city centre. There are wounded and killed, among them a little child. Every day, Russia destroys the civilian population, kills Ukrainian children, directs rockets at civilian objects. Where there is nothing military. What is this if not an open terrorist attack? Inhuman. Country of killers. A country of terrorists". The strike has been labeled as a
war crime by Ukrainian Interior Minister
Denys Monastyrsky. The ambassador of Moldova to Ukraine,
Valeriu Chiveri, condemned the attack on Vinnytsia, referring to attacks on civilian targets in Ukrainian cities away from the frontlines as crimes against humanity. He also mentioned the
European Union's decision to grant candidate status to both Moldova and Ukraine and talked about the need for both countries to work together. Days after the 14 July bombing, at the site of four-year-old Liza Dmitrieva's death, an impromptu memorial for her was created to which flowers and children's toys were laid. The video with Liza was shown on 20 July, in the US Congress. About the July 2022 attack,
Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of the Russian state-controlled media, said the building was attacked because it housed "Nazis". ==2023 strikes==