The death toll in Dnipro due to a Russian missile attack climbed up to 21 on Sunday. Rescue workers scrambled to search for any survivors left in a huge pile of debris left of an apartment. More than 73 were injured in the attack and 35 were still missing, wrote Mykola Lukashuk, head of the regional council, on Telegram. He wrote: “Burn in hell, Russian murderers.”
A building in Dnipro, a city in east-central Ukraine was partly destroyed in a series of attacks on Sunday. This was Russia’s largest wave of strikes in two weeks. There was no immediate comment from Moscow about the attacks.
Rescuers struggled throughout the night to search for survivors. On Sunday morning, they were seen kicking through heaps of smashed concrete and twisted metal. Emergency workers said that they heard people screaming for help from underneath of that piles of debris.
Oleh Kushniruk, a deputy director of the regional branch of Ukraine’s State Emergency Service, told Ukrainian television: “Two rooms on the second floor remain practically intact but buried.”
As many as 38 people, including six children, had been rescued by Sunday morning, told the regional council chief, Lukashuk.
On Sunday, Ukraine’s top military command said that Russia launched 3 air attacks, 57 missile strikes and carried out 69 attacks from heavy weapon rocket salvo systems. Ukrainian forces shot down 26 rockets. Ukraine’s southern command’s spokesperson told local television on Sunday that Russia had fired only half of the cruise missiles it had deployed to the Black Sea during Saturday’s attacks.
President Volodymyr Zelensky in his evening video address on Saturday issued a fresh appeal to his allies of the West for more weapons to end the “Russian terror” and to stop the attacks on civilian targets.
