Rescue crews spent the night searching the rubble for survivors, while images of the huge flattened block of flats – where civilian families lived – are causing outrage
The number of dead civilians – men, women, elderly and children – who were killed in their homes after yesterday’s Russian missile strike on an apartment building in the city of Dnipro in central Ukraine has risen to 20.
Rescue crews spent the night searching the rubble for survivors, while images of the huge flattened block of flats – where civilian families lived – are causing outrage.
The search for the missing continues while the authorities estimate that around 40 people must still be trapped under the rubble.
#Dnipro 14.01.23 🥺💔 pic.twitter.com/D1uIN6ePDX
— MAKS 22🇺🇦 (@Maks_NAFO_FELLA) January 14, 2023
As of this morning, 73 people, including 14 children, had been rescued from the wreckage of the building.
The woman rescued from the ruins of her flat in #Dnipro is called Anastasia
In September, her boyfriend died fighting for Ukraine
Now her home has been destroyed in a Russian missile strike. Last night her parents were still missing
21 people have been found dead? 35 are missing pic.twitter.com/Q2BCc4KbLy
— Sarah Rainsford (@sarahrainsford) January 15, 2023
The attack in Dnipro was the most serious of those that took place yesterday. Apart from Dnipro, Odessa, Kharkiv, Lviv and the capital Kyiv were hit.
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