The death toll from a January 14 Russian missile attack on a residential building in Dnipro has risen to 45, with six children among the dead. This was announced by the head of the Dnepropetrovsk Regional Military Administration (OVA) Valentin Reznichenko in the Telegram channel.
He also published photos showing a partially destroyed house and flowers laid by the townspeople.
“Flowers in memory of the innocent lives that the Russians took, brought to the broken house along with rescuers, policemen, volunteers and the head of the Dnieper.”
Telegram channels published videos showing the moment a rocket hit a high-rise building in Dnipro. The Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that a Kh-22 missile, which was fired from a Tu-22M3 bomber, presumably from Kursk, hit the house. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky recorded an appeal to the Russians, who remained silent even after the blow to the house in the Dnieper. In it, the Ukrainian leader said that “cowardly silence and an attempt to wait it out” will end with the fact that one day “the same terrorists” will come after the Russians themselves.
Russia denies involvement in the tragedy, the Ministry of Defense said on the day of the strike that the troops hit the "military command and control system of Ukraine" and related energy facilities. On January 14, RIA Novosti and TASS did not publish any information that the Russian Federation had hit a residential building in Dnipro with a rocket. Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said two days after the strike that the Russian Armed Forces were not striking at residential buildings, but "at military targets, obvious or disguised."
Alexey Arestovich, a freelance adviser to Zelensky’s office, who suggested on January 14 that a Ukrainian air defense system shot down a missile over the Dnieper, has resigned . The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine claimed that they had never shot down an X-22 during the Russian invasion, and the Ukrainian air defense had no means for this.