A Russian missile attack battered a nine-story apartment building in the central Ukraine city of Dnipro on Saturday, killing at least 30 people and injuring at least 73, local officials said.
The building was hit during the second of two strikes by Russian missiles targeting infrastructure across the nation, The New York Times reported.
Update 5:57 p.m. EST Jan. 15: The death toll has risen to 30, the national emergencies service reported as rescue workers worked to reach survivors in the rubble of the apartment building in Dnipro, The Associated Press reported.
Update 2:24 p.m. EST Jan. 15: The death toll from a Russian missile strike on an apartment building in Dnipro rose to 29 Sunday, The Associated Press reported.
It was the deadliest attack in one place since a Sept. 30 strike in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, according to The Associated Press-Frontline War Crimes Watch project.
Update 10:05 a.m. EST Jan. 15: According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the death toll from a Russian missile strike on an apartment building in Dnipro rose to 25.
Emergency crews worked through the frigid night at the apartment building looking for survivors, The Associated Press reported. Crews and rescue dogs searched for survivors inside the rubble of the building and in the wreckage outside, according to The Washington Post.
Update 7:48 a.m. EST Jan. 15: City government officials revised the death toll to 23, The Associated Press reported Sunday.
The Dnipro city government reported that at least 72 people were wounded and 43 people were reported missing, according to the AP. Officials added that 39 people have been rescued.
Update 7:30 a.m. EST Jan 15: Kyrylo Tymoshenko, the deputy head of the office of the Ukrainian presidential office, said that at least 21 people, including one child, had been killed in the attack, The New York Times reported. He added that emergency workers were still searching through the rubble on Sunday morning.
At least 73 people were injured and at least 37 were still missing, the newspaper reported, citing local officials.
Tymoshenko said that 72 apartments were destroyed in the attack and that at least 400 people lived in the large building and the area around it.
At least one person was rescued, The Washington Post reported.
Update 5:14 p.m. EST Jan. 14: Twelve people were killed and at least 64 others were injured in the blast, The New York Times reported. The victims were hit by a Russian missile strike that destroyed a section of an apartment building, according to Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the Ukrainian presidential office.
Original report: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that every floor of the building had been “smashed” by the explosion, according to the newspaper.
“It’s not yet known how many people are under the rubble,” Zelenskyy said during his nightly address to the nation. “Unfortunately, the death toll is growing every hour.”
Photographs showed a large gap in the building, according to The Associated Press. The death toll included at least 12 children, the news outlet reported.
Kyrylo Tymoshenko, the deputy head of Ukraine’s presidential office said that 20 people were rescued from the building, Reuters reported.
“Tragedy. I’ve gone to the site,” Dnipro Mayor Boris Filatov said, according to the news outlet. “We will be going through the rubble all night.”
Before his nightly address, Zelenskyy called the strike “evil” and posted an image of the rescue operation in a Telegram post.
“We are fighting for every person, every life,” the president said.
Infrastructure facilities were also hit in the western Lviv region and Ivano-Frankivsk regions, in the Odesa region and in northeastern Kharkiv, according to the AP and CNN. The capital city of Kyiv was also targeted, according to the news organizations.
Russia has attacked Ukraine’s critical infrastructure with hundreds of missiles and drones since Oct. 10, killing dozens of civilians, The Kyiv Independent reported.