The death toll from Saturday’s attack on a residential building in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro has risen to 44, as confirmed by the State Emergency Service (SES), which has also indicated that search and rescue work has been completed in the area.
«As of 13.00 on January 17, search and rescue operations at the site of the attack in the city of Dnipro have been completed,» the agency has said through its Telegram account, where it has detailed that among the fatalities there are five children. Also, the SES has said that 79 other people were injured in the attack, including 16 children.
Ukraine has held up this shelling as an example of the abuses committed by Russia during the conflict, with menages of regret shared also with its main international partners. In contrast, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied on Monday that the collapse was due to a Russian missile, claiming that Moscow never attacks civilian targets.
For his part, Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski assured on Monday that those responsible for the attack will be tried by the International Criminal Court (ICC). «There is no doubt: every person guilty of this war crime will be identified and brought to justice,» he said.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
