Death toll from Russian missile strike on apartment building in Kryvyi Rih rises to five
The number of victims of a Russian ballistic missile strike on a high-rise apartment building in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, has now risen to five.
One child is among the dead, the head of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration Serhiy Lysak said in a post on his channel on Telegram.
"Five dead, including a child. It’s already known there are 64 people injured. Among them are two boys and three girls, aged from four to 17 years old," Lysak wrote.
The oblast governor added that most of the wounded were being treated at home, but that more than 20 are in hospital.
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The owners of local Telegram channels reported from the scene earlier that rescuers had retrieved the body of another person from the rubble of the partially collapsed, nine-story apartment building.
The head of the multiple trauma department at Kryvorizka City Clinical Hospital No. 2, Yuriy Pashkov, said that 20 wounded people had admitted to the hospital — 13 men and seven women. Of them, three patients are in serious condition, and 14 are in a moderate condition.
Several people are in intensive care, doctors say. As a result of the attack, people received shrapnel wounds, bruises to soft tissues, multiple blunt traumas, and fractures of the lower limbs.
Russian forces launched a missile attack on the city of Kryvyi Rih on the morning of July 31. They hit a high-rise building and an educational institution. The Ministry of Internal Affairs said all necessary services are working at the scenes of the Russian missile strikes.
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What is known about the number of dead and wounded
As of 4.36 p.m., five people are known to have been killed in the July 31 Russian missile strike on Kryvyi Rih. Among the dead is a 10-year-old girl, who was killed together with her mother when her apartment on the eighth floor of the house was demolished by the Russian missile strike.
The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ihor Klymenko, said that Russia attacked the city with two missiles. One hit a four-story building of an educational institution (technical school of the Polytechnic Institute). He said there are probably people there still trapped under the rubble.
The second missile destroyed the corner section of a nine-story apartment building, from the 4th to the 9th floors, and started a fire. There may still be people trapped under the rubble. Rescue operations are ongoing.
Kryvyi Rih: photos and video of the consequences the Russian missile strike
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy showed a video of the consequences of the Russian strikes on Kryvyi Rih.
"In recent days, the enemy has been stubbornly hitting cities, city centers,” the president wrote in a message posted on social media. “Attacking civilian objects and housing. But this terror will not frighten us or break us. We are working, and saving our people.”
How did the Russians strike?
Air Force spokesman Yuriy Ihnat said on Ukrainian national television later on July 31 that according to preliminary data, the Russians most likely attacked Kryvyi Rih with ballistic missiles.
"You know how dangerous ballistic weapons are, how quickly they can arrive and how destructive they are,” Ihnat said.
“We have to wait until the remains of the missiles are found at the scene, and then we can finally say what it was."
Earlier, the local authorities of Kryvyi Rih announced there had been explosions in the city. Before that, the Ukrainian Air Force warned that there was a threat of a Russian ballistic missile attack, in particular on Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
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