The death toll in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro has risen to 40 after a nine-story apartment building was hit in a Russian missile strike, according to reports, in one of Moscow’s deadliest attacks on a civilian target since the start of the war.
At least 40 people have been killed, with 30 still missing as rescuers comb through the rubble, Reuters reports.
“As of now, the fate of more than 30 people who could have been in the house at the time of the terrorists’ missile hit remains unknown,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his nightly address.
At least one of the dead is a child, and the head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council, Mykola Lukashuk, said more than a dozen children were among the 75 people injured in the attack.
After the attack on Dnipro, Zelensky announced expanded sanctions on Russians who “justify terror” against their Ukrainian neighbors.
“I think it is right that today there is a decision to expand our sanctions against Russian citizens and other persons who help terror,” Zelensky said.
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