Russia again blames Ukraine. As the death toll from an attack on a residential building in Ukraine’s Dnipro climbed to 36 on Monday, the Kremlin said, As he usually does, He denied being responsible for this shelling and blamed the Ukrainian side.
The spokesman for the Russian presidency, Dmitry Peskov, evoked “a tragedy” that could be due to a shooting by the Ukrainian anti-aircraft defense.
“The Russian armed forces do not bomb residential buildings or civilian infrastructure, they bomb military targets,” Peskov also said.
However, multiple bombings have hit a multitude of non-military targets since the invasion began on February 24.
36 dead and 75 wounded
For his part, almost 48 hours after the attack, the head of the Ukrainian national police, Igor Klymenko, announced that after a second night of searches, 36 people have been found dead, including two children, and that 75 people, including 15 children, they have been injured. . According to the regional governor of Ukraine, Valentyn Reznichenko, “the fate of another 35 residents of the building is unknown”, raising fears that the death toll will double.
Rescue operations are still continuing to try to find survivors under the smoking rubble. Specifically, a canine brigade has been deployed. Since the start of the rescue operations, “39 people have been saved” from the ruins, according to the governor.
Massive and regular bombings.
Russian President Vladimir Putin did not comment on the issue, saying, on the other hand, that his war in Ukraine was in a “positive dynamic” on Sunday, just days after Moscow claimed responsibility for the capture of the city of Solder in Ukraine. .
The attack that destroyed the apartment building in Dnipro followed a massive and regular bombing campaign that Moscow has been waging since October against Ukrainian energy infrastructure, plunging the population into darkness and cold. In winter. .
Faced with this barrage of missiles and the threat of a new Russian offensive, the Westerners have intensified their military aid to Ukraine. Now they plan to send armored vehicles and tanks there after being reluctant to deploy heavy weapons there for a long time. Following the Dnipro attack, the United States denounced “a new example of the brutal and barbaric war waged by Russia against the Ukrainian people.”
Source: BFM TV
