A Russian strike on a residential building in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro killed 40 people, according to an updated death toll from the Ukrainian emergency services.
Three children were among those who lost their lives in the Saturday strike that hit a nine-story residential building and has turned out to be one of the largest losses of civilian lives away from the front line since the beginning of the war. Seventy-five people were injured in the strike, including 14 children, and there have been 46 reports of missing persons.
Zelensky said a day earlier that the second through ninth floors were “smashed in the explosion of a Russian missile,” before reiterating a frequent request for Western military assistance.The commander of Ukraine’s Air Force, Lt. Gen. Mykola Oleshchuk, said Russia launched five long-range Kh-22 missiles, and that the one that hit the Dnipro building was launched from Russia’s Kursk region.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied the claim, telling reporters, “The Russian Armed Forces do not strike residential buildings or social infrastructure facilities. Attacks are made on military targets, either obvious or disguised.” He also claimed the strike had been the result of Ukrainian “anti-aircraft counter-missiles” intercepting the Russian missile.The U.S. announced last month that it would send the Patriot missile system to Ukraine, a Zelensky request that the U.S. has long denied.
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