The death toll from the weekend Russian missile assault on an apartment building in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro has grown to 35, according to an official on Monday.
The regional governor, Valentyn Reznichenko, stated that rescuers continued to scour the debris for other victims. Saturday’s attack resulted in at least 75 injuries and the disappearance of 35 others.
The inhabitants of the multi-story structure stated that there were no military facilities on the property. According to The Associated Press-Frontline War Crimes Watch project, the claimed death toll made it the worst attack in a single location since a Sept. 30 attack in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region.
Saturday’s attack on the structure coincided with a massive barrage of Russian cruise missiles throughout Ukraine.
On Saturday, January 15, 2023, in Dnipro, Ukraine, firefighters from the Ukrainian State Emergency Service remove a wounded woman from a building following a Russian rocket attack.
Russia’s resumed air raids occurred as furious battle raged in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk province, where the Russian military claims to have taken control of the small salt-mining town of Soledar while Ukraine claims its troops are still engaged in combat.
If the Russian forces are able to take complete control of Soledar, they will be able to move closer to the larger city of Bakhmut. The struggle for Bakhmut has raged for months, with both sides suffering significant losses.
The U.K. government stated it would deliver tanks to Ukraine, its first donation of such heavy-duty hardware, as the war neared the eleven-month mark. Although the promise of fourteen Challenger 2 tanks seems modest, Ukrainian officials anticipate that it may persuade other Western governments to provide further tanks.
On January 15, 2023, in Dnipro, Ukraine, emergency personnel transport a woman who was injured when a Russian rocket struck a multistory building.
Russian soldiers shelled the city of Kherson and the Kherson area over the past 24 hours, killing three persons and wounded fourteen others, according to the regional governor, Yaroslav Yanushevych. The shelling in the city of Kherson damaged a hospital, a center for disabled children, a shipyard, vital infrastructure, and apartment buildings.
The regional administration reported that Russian forces attacked the city of Zaporizhzhia, damaging industrial facilities and injuring three persons, including two children.
— According to the Belarusian Defense Ministry, the Russian and Belarusian air forces have begun a joint exercise in Belarus that will last through February 1. Russia has dispatched military aircraft to Belarus for the exercises.
Sevastopol’s mayor, Mikhail Razvozhayev, stated that air defenses intercepted a drone above the port city’s bay in Crimea.
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