Rescue teams in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro confirmed at least 30 people dead on Sunday from a Russian missile attack on an apartment building.
Russia launched a barrage of 33 cruise missiles on Dnipro, Kharkiv, the capital Kyiv and other cities on Saturday after a two-week lull in strikes.
Some 1,700 people lived in the nine-story building in Dnipro, which was hit by a Kh-22 fired from Russia’s Kursk region on Saturday, according to the Ukrainian Air Force.
Emergency personnel work at the site where an apartment block was badly damaged by a Russian missile attack in Dnipro, Ukraine, on January 15, 2023.
(REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne)
Hundreds of Dnipro residents joined the National Guard, emergency medical personnel and the police to rescue the residents of the building.
“Dozens of people were rescued from the rubble, including six children,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a speech on Sunday. “We are fighting for every single person! The rescue operation will last as long as there is even the slightest chance of saving lives.”
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Emergency personnel at the site where an apartment block was badly damaged by a Russian missile attack, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Dnipro, Ukraine, on January 15, 2023.
(REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne)
Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed responsibility for missile attacks “on Ukraine’s military command and control system and related energy facilities” on Saturday, but did not name Dnipro.
“All designated targets have been hit. The target of the attack has been achieved,” the Russian Defense Ministry said on Telegram.
A view shows an apartment building badly damaged by a Russian missile attack, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Dnipro, Ukraine, on January 14, 2022.
(Governor of the Dnipropetrovsk Region Valentyn Reznichenko via Telegram/Handout via REUTERS)
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Ukraine currently does not have the ability to shoot down Kh-22 missiles, according to the Ukrainian Air Force.
“This missile with a 950 kg warhead, which is called ‘carrier killer’, is designed to destroy aircraft carrier groups at sea,” Yuriy Ihnat, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force, told Ukrinform.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
