Four people have died in the shelling of a building in Kryvyi Rih and 13 have been injured
The emergency teams have removed before dawn this Saturday the body of a small child from the rubble in the Search for survivors after Russian missile attack destroyed an apartment building in the town of Kryvyi Rih on Fridayin the center of Ukraine.
The missile was one of 16 that Ukrainian authorities said pierced the air defenses of the 76 missiles fired by Russia at Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. It is part of Moscow’s strategy to leave Ukrainian civilians and soldiers in the dark and cold this winter.
Governor Valentyn Reznichenko of the Dnipropetrovsk region, where Kryvyi Rih is located, wrote on the Telegram social media app that “rescuers recovered the body of a one- to one-and-a-half-year-old boy from under the rubble of a house.” destroyed by a Russian rocket”. In total, four people were killed in the attack and 13 were injured, four of them children, authorities said.. The victims were “a 64-year-old woman and a young family with a young child,” he wrote.
Reznichenko said attacks by Russian forces continued overnight, damaging power lines and houses in the cities and towns of Nikopol, Marhanets and Chervonohryhorivka, which lie on the opposite side of the Dnipro river from the nuclear power plant. Zaporizhia, occupied by Russia.
On Saturday morning, the Ukrainian military command said that Russian forces had updated the number of missiles fired in the latest attack, raising it to 98. It did not specify how many had been stopped by air defenses.
Friday’s shelling, targeting central, eastern and southern Ukraine, included one of the worst attacks to date on the capital kyiv since the war sparked by the Russian invasion began on February 24. kyiv was attacked by about 40 missiles on Fridayaccording to the authorities, although the air defenses intercepted 37 of them.
Utility crews were rushing to repair damaged power and water systems. The mayor of the capital, Vitali Klitschko, reported this Saturday that two thirds of the homes had been reconnected to electricity and all had recovered access to water. The subway also restarted service after having served as a refuge on the previous day.
In Kryvyi Rih, 596 miners trapped underground due to missile strikes have been rescued, Mayor Oleksandr Vilkul said late Friday.
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