Death toll of Dnipro attack currently 30

The death toll of Russia’s attack on an apartment block in Ukraine’s Dnipro has increased to 21, says Mykola Lukashuk, a local official.

“A total of 21 people were killed, one of them was a child; we have 73 injured individuals, including 14 kids. Thirty-eight people have been rescued, including 6 children, and 35 people are considered missing at the moment,” he says.

The rescue operation is still ongoing, Ukraine’s Emergency Service reports.

Russia executed a new massive shelling of Ukraine yesterday. Explosions were reported in the Kyiv, Lviv, Vinnytsia, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Dnipro, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Khmelnytskyi regions of the country.

Ukraine’s army officials say the projectile that hit the apartment block was a Russian Kh-22 anti-ship missile.