A Russian airstrike on an apartment building in the city of Dnipro killed more than 20 people over the weekend, Ukrainian officials said Sunday, as rescue workers raced to save dozens more believed to be trapped beneath the wreckage.
The Russian Defense Ministry cast the missile barrage Saturday as an effort to take out Ukrainian military command-and-control targets, but at least one missile apparently struck an apartment complex in Dnipro, which was home to about 1,700 civilians. At least 23 people, including at least one child, have been confirmed dead, Ukrainian officials said.
“Rescuers are working. Burn in hell, Russian murderers,”Mykola Lukashuk, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council, wrote in a post on his Telegram channel.