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Death toll in Russian attack on apartment building in Dnipro rises

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The search and rescue operation amidst the rubble after the Russian missile attack on a 9-storey residential building in the Ukrainian town of Dnipro has been going on for 40 hours. 35 people have been killed, the local authorities say, among them 2 children. 39 civilians have been rescued, 75 have been wounded, among them 14 children. The search continues among the ruins. 35 residents of the apartment building are missing. Russian missiles once again targeted civilian targets in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia overnight. The wounded include two children.

In his nightly address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky turned to people in Russia in Russian to condemn their “cowardly silence”: “I want to say to all those in Russia - and from Russia - who even now could not utter even a few words of condemnation of this terror... Even though they see and know everything perfectly well…

Your cowardly silence, your attempt to "wait out" what is happening will only end with those same terrorists coming after you one day.

Evil is very sensitive to cowardice. Evil always remembers those who fear it or try to bargain with it. And when it comes after you, there will be no one to protect you.”

“All designated targets have been hit. The goal of the attack has been achieved,” a Russian Foreign Ministry statement on the attack on a residential building in Dnipro reads, as reported by the Russian state news agency TASS.  

In an interview for Russian state TV Rossia-1, President Vladimir Putin said: “The dynamic is positive. Everything is developing within the framework of the plan of the ministry of defence and the general staff.”

Mykhailo Podolyak, advisor to the President of Ukraine wrote on Twitter that 29,543 of the 38,244 prisoners recruited by the Wagner private military group and sent to Ukraine had been “killed, wounded, sent missing or captured” and that the “prisoners' death rate is currently 77%”. 



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