DEATH TOLL FROM DNIPRO APARTMENT ATTACK RISES TO 40

Mon 16 January 2023:

At least 40 people are confirmed dead so far in the Russia bombing of an apartment building in Dnipro as the search for more survivors is ongoing, says Valentyn Reznichenko, governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region.

“The search for people underneath the rubble continues,” Reznichenko said on the Telegram messaging app.

“As of now, the enemy attack took the lives of 35 residents of the building, including two children. Thirty nine people were saved, 75 were injured,” Dnipropetrovsk regional governor Valentyn Reznichenko said on social media.

It has been nearly 40 hours since the strike, and rescuers are still trying to find another 35 residents of the building.

“May God help us find several of them. I think the number of dead will be in the dozens,” mayor Borys Filatov said. He believes the “absolutely inaccurate” X-22 missile was likely aimed at a power station nearby. “But the missile flew by and hit residential buildings,” he said.

Ukraine’s air force said the apartment block was struck by a Russian Kh-22 missile, which is known to be inaccurate and which Ukraine lacks the air defences to shoot down. The Soviet-era missile was developed during the Cold War to destroy warships.

Heavily injured children were among those admitted to a hospital after the attack. Dnipro’s Children’s Hospital said on Sunday that seven children and one adult had been hospitalised. One of the admitted children had two broken hips and a shrapnel injury.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday condemned the Russian people’s “cowardly silence” over the attack, noting that Ukraine had received messages of sympathy from around the world over “this terror.”

Sweden condemns Russia’s attack on Dnipro

Sweden has condemned Russia’s attacks against Ukrainian infrastructure and civilian targets, including a missile strike on an apartment block in Dnipro, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson says at a news conference with European Council President Charles Michel.

“The Swedish government condemns in the strongest terms Russia’s continuing, systemic attacks against civilians, civilian objects and critical infrastructure, including Saturday’s attack on an apartment block in the town of Dnipro,” Kristersson said.

“Those responsible for war crimes will be held to account,” he said.

Sweden currently holds the rotating EU presidency.

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