Rescue teams continue to retrieve bodies from rubble of five-storey apartment block, with victim aged nine among latest confirmed dead
The death toll reached 33 from a missile strike on a five-storey apartment block in Chasiv Yar, easternAccording to Kyiv, the residential building was hit by Russian rockets fired from truck-borne systems late on Saturday evening.
The latest victim, a nine-year-old, was reported to have been found around 11.30pm on Monday evening. Nine people were saved in the aftermath of the attack while Pavlo Kyrylenko, the governor of the Donetsk region that includes Chasiv Yar, said about three dozen people could still be trapped in the rubble.
Andriy Yermak, Zelenskiy’s chief of staff, said the strike was “another terrorist attack” and that Russia should be designated as a state sponsor of terrorism.
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