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Serhii mourns the death of his childhood best friend, mown down by the explosion. Who a family member, who a friend: the whole town is in mourning. This is the highest number of Ukrainian civilians killed in a single strike to date.
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Among the victims: six children. The youngest was 11 months old.
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A religious celebration took place in a park near the devastated building. By tradition, residents had water blessed there, January 19 corresponding to the feast of Theophany, the Orthodox equivalent of the Catholic Epiphany.
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The facade of the building reveals its entrails. The fact that civilians were killed in the shelling has demoralized residents, who feel there is no longer a place to hide from the horrors of war.
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Evheniia came to lay flowers at the scene. Relatives of the victims did the same.
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Many residents of the neighborhood paid tribute to the victims. Dnipro, a city of one million before the Russian invasion, has hosted many Ukrainian refugees since the start of the conflict, its location 485 km southeast of Kyiv making it relatively safer than other regions of the country.
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A victim carries some personal effects after the evacuation of his accommodation. Before the bombing, some 1,700 people lived in the building, according to Ukrainian presidential adviser Kyrylo Tymoshenko. “236 apartments were damaged. More than 400 people are homeless,” he said on Tuesday.
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Valentyna, Halyna and Nina live in a neighboring building. They were not injured, but the windows of their apartment were shattered by the explosion.
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Windows have also been distributed to the tenants of the apartments that are still standing. These residents will thus be able to replace their windows shattered by the explosion. Despite the devastation, several units in the building are still inhabited.
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The nine-storey Dnipro building was split in two by the power of the Russian machine, a Kh-22 supersonic cruise missile, according to a report released Tuesday by Ukraine’s Attorney General Andriï Kostin. The report states that this type of missile is found “only in one unit of the Russian Aerospace Forces, the 52nd heavy bomber aviation regiment”.
With Agence France-Presse and the Associated Press