The death toll from a Russian missile attack that destroyed an apartment building in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro has risen to 14, while rescuers toiled through the night searching for survivors, the regional governor said early on Sunday.
"The search operation is ongoing," Valentyn Reznichenko, governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region of east-central Ukraine, wrote at 2:50 a.m. on the Telegram messaging app.
Some 38 people had been rescued, about two dozen were missing and an unknown number of residents remained under a massive pile of debris after the Saturday afternoon attack that injured at last 64, Reznichenko said.at the height of winter for the capital and large swaths of the country for the coming days, officials warned.
The strikes - Russia's largest wave of attacks on Ukraine in two weeks - came as the country was observing the traditional New Year.
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