Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed the “positive dynamic” of his ongoing invasion of Ukraine on Sunday after a Russian missile attack killed 23 people on a Dnipro apartment building.
The Dnipro attack was part of a wave of missile attacks that Russia launched in Ukraine this weekend. Rescuers spent hours searching through the rubble of the 9-story apartment building destroyed in the attack. In all, Russia fired 30 missiles at Dnipro and other major cities, but Ukrainian forces shot down more than 20 of them in midair.
“There is a positive dynamic, everything is developing according to plan,” Putin told reporters on Sunday. “I hope our fighters will please us more than once.”
The missile attack in Dnipro coincided with another attack on the capital of Kyiv. There, Ukrainian officials reported damage to infrastructure, but there were no civilian casualties.
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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. (Dnipropetrovsk Region Governor Valentyn Reznichenko via Telegram/Handout via REUTERS)
(Governor of the Dnipropetrovsk Region Valentyn Reznichenko via Telegram/Handout via REUTERS)
Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting on the country’s transportation industry via video link in Sochi, Russia, May 24, 2022.
(Sputnik/Mikhail Metzel/Kremlin via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS: THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy took to Twitter to condemn the attacks, saying: “Eternal memory to all those whose lives were taken by Russian terror.”
“It was possible to save dozens of people, injured, traumatized,” Zelenskyy said. “Among them there are children, the youngest girl is 3 years old.”
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“The world must stop the evil,” he continued, adding that debris removal was underway. “All services are working. We are fighting for every person, every life. We will find everyone involved in the terror.”
A dog walks through the rubble of houses destroyed by a missile attack on the outskirts of Kyiv, on December 29, 2022, following a Russian missile attack on Ukraine. – Russian missile strikes ripped through Ukraine, including in major cities like Kyiv, Kharkiv and Lviv on December 29, injuring at least five people and cutting off power in the west.
(Photo by GENYA SAVILOV/AFP via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yurii Ihnat told Ukrainian media that the missiles most likely “flew on a ballistic trajectory” from northern Ukraine. He claimed that Ukrainian forces currently have no method of shooting down such missiles, at least not until operators have been trained in the use of US Patriot missiles, which President Biden’s administration is about to deliver. next week.
Fox News’ Caitlin McFall contributed to this report.
