Russia fired 33 cruise missiles yesterday, of which 21 were shot down, according to the commander-in-chief of Ukrainian forces.
THE DEATH TOLL from a Russian missile strike on an apartment building in the south-eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro has risen to 29, officials reported, as rescue workers scrambled to pull survivors from the rubble.
Russia fired 33 cruise missiles yesterday, of which 21 were shot down, according to General Valeriy Zaluzhny, the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces. In Dnipro, workers used a crane as they tried to rescue people trapped on upper floors of the apartment tower where about 1,700 were living. Some residents signalled for help with lights on their mobile phones.
“There are no military facilities here. There is nothing here,” he said. “There is no air defence, there are no military bases here. It just hit civilians, innocent people.” “This is clearly terrorism and all this is simply not human,” one local, Artem Myzychenko, said as he cleared rubble.
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