The national emergency service said on Sunday that the death toll from a Russian missile strike on an apartment building in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro rose to 30 as rescue personnel attempted to find survivors in the rubble.
Before Saturday's attack, officials believed that more than 1,700 people resided in the multistory apartment building. Emergency crews labored throughout the night and the next day to repair the facility.
Russia Missile Strike Rocks Ukraine
The reported death toll made it the worst strike in a single area since September 30 in the Zaporizhia region of Ukraine. Russia also struck the capital, Kyiv, and the northeastern city of Kharkiv on the same day, breaking a two-week lull in its nearly weekly strikes against Ukraine's electrical infrastructure and metropolitan areas since October.
Russia acknowledged the Sunday missile assaults, but did not name the Dnipro apartment complex. According to AP News via Yahoo, Russia has repeatedly denied using human targets in the fight. The commander of the military's air force stated that the missile that impacted the apartment block was a Kh-22 launched from the Kursk region of Russia. The Ukraine lacks a system that can detect this type of weapon.
Workers in Dnipro deployed a crane to rescue those trapped on the upper floors of a residential structure. Some people requested aid using their cell phone flashlights.
The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said that at least 73 people were injured and 39 people had been rescued. According to the Dnipro city government, 43 individuals are missing. Ivan Garnuk was residing in his apartment when the structure was attacked, and he expressed thanks for his survival.
Russia, Ukraine Fight for Eastern Donetsk
Moscow's attacks on Ukraine's electricity infrastructure and metropolitan centers resumed after a two-week respite. According to General Valeriy Zaluzhny, the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces, Russia launched 33 cruise missiles, 21 were intercepted on Saturday.
According to the air force leadership, the missile that struck the multi-story residential structure in Dnipro was a Kh-22 launched from Russia's Kursk area. Workers utilized a crane to attempt to rescue around 1,700 individuals stuck on the upper levels of the apartment building. Some locals requested assistance using the lights on their cell phones, as per Mirror.
On Sunday, the Russian military stormed a residential neighborhood in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, according to a Telegram message from the region's governor, Yaroslav Yanushevych. According to initial reports, two persons were injured.
Kyrylo Tymoshenko, the deputy head of the Ukrainian presidential office, stated on Telegram that this morning's strikes targeted vital infrastructure in Kyiv. Unidentified infrastructure was struck in the city, and emergency services were dispatched to the scene, according to the military administration of the city of Kyiv.
Vitali Klitschko, the mayor of Kyiv, reported hearing explosions in the Dniprovskyi neighborhood, a residential area on Dnieper River. He said that missile parts landed in a non-residential sector of the Holosiivskyi neighborhood on the right bank, where a structure caught fire.
As they waited for the air raid sirens to cease, elderly citizens, danced and performed music. Putin's army launched two S-300 missiles against the industrial zone of Kharkiv, according to regional governor Oleh Synehubov. The strikes targeted "energy and industrial items of Kharkiv and the (outlying) area," Synehubov stated.
The official stated that no injuries had been recorded but that emergency power outages were possible in the city and other villages in the region. The raids came amid contradictory reports regarding the fate of the bitterly disputed salt-mining town of Soledar, located in Ukraine's beleaguered eastern Donetsk region.
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