On Saturday both Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the US embassy in Kyiv issued warnings about the risk of a major Russian airstrike in the coming hours. “We are seeing signs of preparation for a combined strike on Ukrainian territory, including Kyiv, involving various types of weaponry” including the Oreshnik, a Russian nuclear-capable hypersonic missile, Zelensky said in a post on social media. The US embassy said it had “received information concerning a potentially significant air attack that may occur at any time over the
next 24 hours”. Ukraine regularly targets Russian-controlled areas of the country with drones, saying the strikes are retaliation for Russian attacks. Dormitory death toll Russia’s emergency ministry said on Saturday it had pulled two more bodies from the rubble of the dormitory, taking the death toll to 18. Video shared by the ministry showed dozens of rescuers sifting through what remained of a section of the five-storey building. Most of those killed and missing were young women born between 2003 and 2008, according to a
list of casualties published by the Moscow-backed governor of occupied Lugansk, Leonid Pasechnik. “The region and the entire country share the fate of these people and the pain of their families,” he said on Telegram.
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