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The number of fatalities left by the Russian attack on a multi-storey residential building in the city of Dnipro, north of Zaporizhia (Ukraine) increased to 21, reported this Sunday (15.01.2023) the Ukrainian authorities. In addition, there are 73 people injured, the vast majority hospitalized, and four of them in extremely serious condition.
“21 dead, 1 child,” the chairman of the Dnipropetrovsk regional council, Mykola Lukashuk, wrote in a message on Telegram.. The authority added that among the injured there are 14 children, and that there are still 35 missing people, who are still being searched among the rubble by rescuers, who heard calls for help several hours after the collapse of the building.
The impact of the missile, a KH-22 designed to attack aircraft carriers, destroyed a total of 72 apartments and damaged more than 230. Lukashuk added that some 3,450 tons of destroyed structures and 39 damaged vehicles have been removed. The residents of 236 apartments, which corresponds to more than 400 people, will possibly have to be rehoused.
25 missiles shot down
The attack on Dnipro was the most serious in a wave of shelling launched by the Russian invaders against civilian infrastructure in Ukraine on Saturday. In addition to Dnipro, towns such as Odesa, Kharkov, Lviv and kyiv were targeted by the bombings, which generated power outages. Ukraine reported shooting down 25 of the 38 missiles that were fired by the assailants.
The Ukrainian authorities condemned the attacks and again described what happened as “terrorism”. Let us remember that International Humanitarian Law considers it a war crime to deliberately attack civilians in the context of a conflict. Moscow has not commented on these attacks, which add to the list of bombardments against civilian targets that Russia has accumulated since February 2022.
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