Death toll at 14 in Russian missile strike in eastern Ukraine

ISTANBUL (AA) - The death toll rose to 14 from a Russian missile strike in eastern Ukraine, media reports in Ukraine said early Sunday.

The Kyiv Independent online newspaper that cited Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Governor Valentyn Reznichenko, reported missiles that hit an apartment building in Dnipro killed at least 14, including a 15-year-old.

An earlier report by Ukraine's Emergency Service said 73 people were wounded in the attack, including 14 children and at least 59 people were hospitalized.

Thirty-eight people were rescued during the initial response to the attack while search and rescue operations continue, it reported.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed Russia’s “heavy missile attack on Ukrainian cities” in a statement.

“Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa, Kryvy Rih, Dnipro, Vinnytsia, Ladyzhyn, Burshtyn, Lviv region, Khmelnytsky and other cities were targets of terrorists,” said Zelenskyy.

“In the city of Dnipro, a residential building has been destroyed in this Russian strike,” he said. “An ordinary nine-story panel building, of which there are quite a few in various cities of Eastern and Central Europe. All floors of this building – from the second to the ninth – were smashed in the explosion of a Russian missile.”

“It was possible to save dozens of people – wounded, traumatized, treatment is being provided to them. Among them are children, the youngest girl is three years old,” he said.