2023 Dnipro residential building airstrike | |
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Part of the Dnipro missile strikes and the Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure | |
Location | Sobornyi District, Dnipro, Ukraine |
Coordinates | 48°25′09″N 35°04′04″E / 48.41917°N 35.06778°E |
Date | 14 January 2023 about 3:30 p.m. |
Attack type | Missile strikes |
Weapon | Kh-22 |
Deaths | ≥46[1][2] (including 6 children[3]) |
Injured | 80[1][2] |
Perpetrators | Russian Armed Forces |
On 14 January 2023 at about 3:30 p.m., a Russian Kh-22 missile struck a nine-story residential building in Dnipro, Ukraine, on Naberezhna Peremohy St , 118,[4][5] Sobornyi District in the right-bank part of the city, destroying one entrance and 236 apartments.[6] On 19 January the official casualty rate was stated as 46 people killed (including 6 children[3]) and 80 injured[1][2] (12 in critical condition)[7] and 11 people reported missing.[1] 14 children were reported injured, and 39 inhabitants were rescued.[8] The destruction left about 400 people homeless.[9] The strike was part of months-long campaign of Russian strikes on Ukrainian civilians and civilian infrastructure that also had hit Dnipro.
This strike was the deadliest Russian attack on a residential building in Ukraine in the previous six months.[10] A three-day period of mourning was declared in Dnipro.[11]
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