(Reuters) – The death toll from a Russian missile attack that destroyed an apartment constructing within the Ukrainian city of Dnipro has risen to 14, while rescuers toiled through the night trying to find survivors, the regional governor said early on Sunday.
“The search operation is ongoing,” Valentyn Reznichenko, governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region of east-central Ukraine, wrote at 2:50 a.m. (0050 GMT) on the Telegram messaging app.
Some 38 people had been rescued, about two dozen were missing and an unknown variety of residents remained trapped under an enormous pile of debris after the Saturday afternoon attack that injured finally 64, Reznichenko said.
The strikes hit critical infrastructure in Kyiv and other places, restricting power supply at the peak of winter for the capital and enormous swaths of the country for the approaching days, officials warned.
The strikes – Russia’s largest wave of attacks on Ukraine in two weeks – got here because the country was observing the standard Recent 12 months.
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As ground fighting continued in Ukraine’s east, Britain followed France and Poland with guarantees of further weapons, saying it will send 14 of its Challenger 2 most important battle tanks and artillery support. The moves add pressure on Germany to follow suit as Kyiv’s continues to plea for advanced military equipment.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his advisers have “analysed the military picture, checked out the strategic impact of the UK’s support and identified a window where he thinks the UK and its allies can have maximum impact,” a government spokesperson said in an announcement.
Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24 in what Moscow calls “a special military operation”, but which Ukraine and its allies say is an unprovoked aggression that has since killed 1000’s, displaced thousands and thousands and turned much of cities akin to Dnipro into rubble.
(Reporting by Lidia Kelly; Editing by William Mallard)
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