Saturday, during a predawn search for survivors following a Russian missile strike that destroyed an apartment building in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, rescue workers recovered the body of a toddler.
According to Ukrainian authorities, 16 of the 76 missiles fired Friday in the latest Russian attack against Ukrainian energy infrastructure evaded air defenses. This is part of Moscow’s aim to leave Ukrainian residents and soldiers in the dark and freezing this winter.
Gov. Valentyn Reznichenko of the Dnipropetrovsk region, where Kryvyi Rih is located, posted on the social media app Telegram that “rescuers recovered the body of a 1-and-a-half-year-old boy from under the wreckage of a house damaged by a Russian rocket.” Four individuals were murdered and thirteen were injured, including four children, according to the authorities.
He said that the victims were “a 64-year-old woman and a young family with a little son.”
Friday in Ukraine, firefighters struggle to extinguish a fire at a building destroyed by a Russian missile.
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Reznichenko reported that Russian forces continued their bombardment throughout the night, causing damage to power lines and homes in the cities and towns of Nikopol, Marhanets, and Chervonohryhryhorivka, which are located across the Dnieper River from the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
Saturday morning, Ukraine’s military command reported that the number of missiles fired in the most recent attack had increased to 98. It was not specified how many aircraft were intercepted by the air defenses.
Friday’s assault, which ravaged large portions of central, eastern, and southern Ukraine, was one of the largest attacks yet on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24. According to the authorities, approximately 40 missiles were fired towards Kiev on Friday, but 37 of them were intercepted by air defenses.
On Saturday, the mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, said that two-thirds of houses had recovered access to electricity and water. The subway system also resumed service the day following its use as a shelter.
Mayor Oleksandr Vilkul stated late Friday that all 596 miners trapped underground in Kryvyi Rih due to missile attacks were rescued.
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