Rescue teams continue this Sunday to search for survivors among the rubble of a nine-story building in Dnipro, eastern Ukraine, the target of a Russian missile attack that killed at least 20 people.
A video posted by the Ukrainian emergency services on the social networks Facebook and Telegram shows rescuers digging through the rubble of the apartment building overnight.
Emergency services said firefighters were desperately trying to save a woman, trapped under rubble, with whom they had been able to speak.
At least 20 people, including a 15-year-old girl, were killed, 64 were injured and 38 survivors were pulled from the rubble, the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Valentin Reznichenko, said today on the Telegram social network.
According to the Ukrainian presidency, between 100 and 200 people were left homeless by the shelling, and around 1,700 Dnipro residents were left without electricity and heating.
Several regions of Ukraine declared alert on Saturday afternoon following a fresh series of Russian missile strikes that hit residential areas and strategic infrastructure.
In southern Ukraine, at Kryvyi Rig, one person was killed and another injured in several apartment buildings hit by shelling, according to an official report.
Russia “carried out three airstrikes and about 50 missile strikes during the day” on Saturday, the Ukrainian Army General Staff said. “In addition, the occupiers launched 50 attacks with multiple rocket launchers,” he added.
Ukraine’s Energy Minister German Galushchenko announced on Saturday on the Facebook social network that power cuts have been ordered in most regions of the country following the Russian attacks.
The Russian attacks came shortly after British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak telephoned his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, to announce that Britain would be the first Western power to send frontline tanks to kyiv.
This despite fears within NATO that Russia may view this decision as an escalation of the war.
The military offensive launched by Russia against Ukraine on February 24, 2022 was condemned by the broader international community, which has responded by sending weapons to Ukraine and political and economic sanctions on Moscow.
The Russian invasion has so far caused the flight of more than 14 million people -6.5 million internally displaced persons and more than 7.9 million to European countries-, according to the latest data from the United Nations, which catalogs this crisis of refugees as the worst in Europe since the Second World War (1939-1945).
The United Nations considers 6,952 civilians dead and 11,144 wounded, stressing that these figures are far below the real ones.
Source: TSF
