The death toll from the brutal Russian attack on a residential building in Dnipro rises to 44 and there are 22 missing

Ukraine indicated on Tuesday that 22 people are still missing after the missile bombardment carried out against a residential building in Dniprowhich left at least 44 dead.

The Ukrainian presidency reported that on Tuesday in the morning the body of a child was found in the rubble.

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Thus, “39 people were rescued (including six children), 44 people died, including 4 children, and 79 people were injured, of whom 16 are children,” the Ukrainian rescue services said on Tuesday in their latest balance sheet.

The mayor of Dnipro, Borys Filatov, also confirmed the death toll of 44 on Facebook.

The bombing is one of the deadliest committed against civilians since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022.

The balance could, however, increase. Rescue teams were doing everything possible to find the people who were still missing between the big concrete blocks.

“22 people are still being searched for,” Ukrainian rescue services specified on Telegram late Tuesday morning.

On Saturday, a missile destroyed an apartment building in Dniprodevastating “more than 200 apartments”, according to Kyrylo Tymoshenko, adviser to the Ukrainian presidency.

In his daily speech, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, vowed on Monday that “every person guilty of this war crime would be identified and brought to justice.”

For his part, Russia denied any involvement in the killing.

The bombardment in Dnipro led to the resignation of an adviser to the Ukrainian presidency, whose statements about a possible gaffe by Ukrainian troops to explain the deadly attack caused great anger among the population.

“A fundamental mistake, and then the resignation,” Oleksiy Arestovych wrote on Telegram to explain his departure.

Source: Elcomercio

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