At least 23 killed in Russian strike

Kyiv, The Gulf Observer: At least 23 people have been killed and 73 others wounded after a Russian missile slammed into a tower block in the city of Dnipro during a massive wave of strikes causing power outages and blackouts across the war-torn country, Ukraine’s regional council head Mykola Lukashuk said.

“The rescue operation is ongoing. The fate of more than 40 people remains unknown,” Valentyn Reznichenko, governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region in central eastern Ukraine, wrote at 0525 GMT (7:25am local time) on the Telegram messaging app.

Russian strike on residential building that killed 23 people in Ukraine

According to Reznichenko, the attack had destroyed 72 apartments and damaged more than 230. 

The strikes also hit critical infrastructure in Kiev and other places, restricting power supply at the height of winter for the capital and large swaths of the country for the coming days, officials warned.