The wave of Russian attacks on Saturday in several regions of Ukraine left at least 26 dead and 81 injured, the deputy head of the Ukrainian president’s office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, said on Sunday.
In a message on Telegram, quoted by the Ukrinform agency, the official explained that, according to the regional military administrations, in the Dnipropetrovsk region there were 21 dead and 74 wounded; in Donetsk, five dead and four wounded; in Sumy, one wounded, and in Kherson, two wounded.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported that Russian forces launched three airstrikes and 57 missile strikes on Saturday and also opened fire from multiple rocket launchers on 69 occasions, specifically targeting civilian infrastructure.
Meanwhile, rescue teams found a survivor in the rubble of a residential building in Dnipro, where a missile hit killed at least 21 people, the city’s mayor, Borys Filatov, told television.
“I can confirm it. I saw the start of this rescue operation with my own eyes. Somewhere on the fifth floor, rescue teams found a man showing signs that he was alive. They brought a crane and a stretcher to get him out. eyes, a rescue vehicle approached,” he said.
Recalling that, according to the National Police, 40 people whose relatives asked for help are being sought, Filatov spoke of 21 dead and 71 injured, including 13 children, in addition to 38 people rescued.
The mayor says that he asked the heads of the different services not to record each death, but to wait for the rescue operation to finish.
“Honestly, I think there will be dozens of victims,” he said, adding that he believed there was still a chance of finding people alive.
According to the mayor’s calculations, the rescue operation will end around 03:00 this Monday.
In an earlier message, the chairman of the Dnipropetrovsk region regional council said the missile hit destroyed 72 apartments and damaged more than 230.
The Dnipro city authorities declared three days of mourning.
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 caused, so far, 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 most recent data from the United Nations, which lists this refugee crisis 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
