Brutal bombardment by Russia against a residential building in Dnipro leaves at least 12 dead and 26 missing

Rescue teams are looking for 26 people this morning among the rubble of the Dnipro residential building that was collapsed this Saturday by the impact of a missile Russianwhich has killed 12 people and injured 73, including 14 children, according to local media.

The military governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Valentin Reznichenko, has announced on Telegram that the fate of 26 people is unknown, while the Dnipro city council has detailed in a statement that “there are people under the rubble trying to contact or write SMS”.

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Precisely the city council has also reported that “73 people were injured, including 14 children” and that “almost all the injured are now in hospitals”, as published by Ukrinform.

Late on Saturday, Ukrainian authorities raised to 12 the death toll in a Russian missile attack on a Dnipro residential building.

Emergency personnel work at the site where an apartment block was badly damaged by a Russian missile attack, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Dnipro, Ukraine. (REUTERS / Clodagh Kilcoyne /)

The authorities of dnipro have announced three days of official mourning for the victims of the attack.

“In dniproDue to the tragedy at the Peremoha railway station, a three-day mourning period has been announced for those killed in a rocket attack on a residential building,” the city council said in a statement.

Russia massively attacked the civil and energy infrastructure in kyiv and other Ukrainian regions this Saturday in two waves a few days after the appointment of a new head of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine, Valery Gerasimov, and after a break of several days in aerial bombardments. .

The attacks resumed in the morning in the capital and the kyiv region, where explosions were heard before the anti-aircraft alarms were activated, in Zaporizhia and in Mykolaiv.

Emergency personnel work at the site where an apartment block was badly damaged by a Russian missile attack, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Dnipro, Ukraine. (REUTERS / Clodagh Kilcoyne /)

Already in the afternoon the map of the alerts was dyed red for two hours throughout the country.

According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia launched 38 missiles of different types from the Black and Caspian seas and Russian fighters, of which 25 were destroyed by anti-aircraft defense.

The city of Dniproin the central Dnipropetrovsk region, suffered the most tragic hit from Russian missiles.

The shelling hit a nine-story residential building, according to the deputy head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, who stressed that there were people under the rubble of the entrance that completely collapsed.

TRAGEDY WITH DEAD IN THE CENTER OF THE COUNTRY

The city of Dniproin the central Dnipropetrovsk region, suffered the most tragic hit from Russian missiles.

The shelling hit a nine-story residential building, according to the deputy head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, who stressed that there are people under the rubble of the entrance that completely collapsed.

The head of the Regional Military Administration, Valentin Reznichenko, pointed out that there are at least nine dead and 64 wounded, including 12 children.

The Ukrainian Prime Minister, Denys Shmyhal, stated that there are “dozens” of victims”, while the country’s President, Volodimir Zelensky, stressed that “the world must stop this evil”, referring to “Russian terror”.

“We will find everyone involved in this terror” and “everyone will take responsibility, the utmost responsibility,” he stressed.

Rescuers work at the site where an apartment building was badly damaged by a Russian missile attack, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Dnipro. (Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine/Handout via REUTERS/)

Zelensky took the opportunity to ask the West for “the weapons that are in the warehouses of our partners and that our soldiers are waiting for.”

Tymoshenko said emergency services managed to rescue 20 people, including three children.

The rescue teams, made up of 230 people and 67 units, try to save people with cranes while they signal their location with flashlights and mobile phones.

“The whole area is completely without power and disconnected from life support systems,” he said. Also in the Dnipropetrovsk region, a missile damaged residential buildings in Krivoy Rog.

“One person died, one was injured,” Reznichenko said.

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RUSSIA HIT INFRASTRUCTURE

hmyhal pointed out that there were also impacts on critical infrastructure facilities in various regions, including Odessa.

In the eastern Kharkiv province, two missiles hit important infrastructure and there are emergency blackouts, Governor Oleg Synegubov said after the second attack of the day.

Already in the morning there were attacks against key infrastructures and industrial facilities in the city of the same name and the region.

Maksym Kozytskyi, head of the Lviv Regional Administration, also reported an impact on essential infrastructure in the western Ukraine province and possible interruptions in electricity and water supply.

The operator of the electricity transmission system in Ukraine, Ukrenergo, indicated that Russia today launched the twelfth massive attack against the Ukrainian energy sector and that there were hits in five regions: kyiv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Vinnytsia, Lviv and Kharkiv.

POWER OUTAGES IN VARIOUS REGIONS

According to Energy Minister Herman Galushchenko, “due to the shelling, emergency shutdowns are introduced in most regions. The next few days will be difficult, ”he warned on Facebook.

“The energy deficit in the electrical system has increased significantly,” stressed Ukrenergo, with the situation being “difficult” in the Kharkov and Lviv provinces.

The private electricity generator DTEK explained for its part that Russia “fired at two thermal power plants, one of them stopped the production of electricity.”

The second wave of attacks of the day did not cause damage to the critical infrastructure of the capital, “thanks to the effective work of the Air Defense Forces,” said the head of the City’s Military Administration, Serhiy Popko.

kyiv, AGAIN TARGET OF RUSSIA

In the morning, missiles did hit the kyiv region.

According to the kyiv Region Military Administration, the missiles hit essential infrastructure and in the town of Kopyliv a residential building was attacked, with no casualties.

The governor, Oleksiy Kuleba, claimed that 28 residential buildings were damaged.

In the capital, a warehouse caught fire due to falling missile fragments in the Holosiv district, and cars were damaged in the Darnytsia district.

The fact that the explosions were heard in the city before the anti-aircraft alerts were activated was explained by Air Force spokesman Yuri Ignat, arguing that Russia probably fired S-300 anti-aircraft or ballistic missiles from the north. that the Ukrainian system fails to “spot and shoot down”, unlike cruise missiles.

Source: Elcomercio