2023 Dnipro residential building airstrike

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2023 Dnipro residential building airstrike
Part of the Dnipro missile strikes and the Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
Firefighters putting out a fire at a residential building in Dnipro on January 14 after it was destroyed by a Kh-22 missile
LocationSobornyi District, Dnipro, Ukraine
Coordinates48°25′09″N 35°04′04″E / 48.41917°N 35.06778°E / 48.41917; 35.06778
Date14 January 2023
about 3:30 p.m.
Attack type
Missile strikes
WeaponKh-22
Deaths≥45[1] (including 6 children[2])
Injured75[1]
PerpetratorsRussian Armed Forces

On 14 January 2023 at about 3:30 p.m., a Russian Kh-22 type missile hit Ukrainian nine-story residential building in Dnipro on Naberezhna Peremohy St [uk], 118,[3][4] Sobornyi District in the right-bank part of the city, destroying one entrance and 236 apartments.[5] On 17 January morning the official casualty rate was stated as 45 people killed[6] (including 6 children) and 75 injured[1] (12 in critical condition)[7] and 35 people reported missing.[1] 14 children were reported injured, and 39 inhabitants were rescued.[1] The destruction left about 400 people homeless.[8] The strike was part of a months-long campaign of Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure that also had hit Dnipro.

This strike became the most destructive Russian attack on a residential building in Ukraine in the last six months.[9] A three-day mourning was declared in Dnipro.[10]

Timeline

Aftermath of the attack
View of the building at night.

A local air alert began at 2:00 p.m.[11] Ukrainian Air Defence Forces shot down 6 of 8 missiles over Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.[3] An explosion was heard at approximately 3:41 p.m., when a Kh-22 missile hit a multi-storey building at Naberezhna Peremohy St [uk], 118, Sobornyi District, Dnipro.[11][3][4] At the moment, Ukraine does not have air defense systems to intercept such Kh-22 missiles.[12] From the start of the February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine (already) 210 rockets of this type had been fired on Ukraine with none being shot down by air defenses.[13] Dnipro mayor Borys Filatov claimed that the Russians had tried to destroy a nearby thermal power station.[14]

Initially it was reported that the attack had killed 20 people[15] (including a 15-year-old girl)[16] and injured 73 (including 14 children; the youngest three years old; a 9-year-old girl was reported to be in serious condition).[17][18] Nothing was known about the fate of another 26 people.[19] 23-year-old Anastasiia Shvets, who was in a state of shock in the bathroom on the seventh floor, miraculously survived.[20] In September, the Russian army killed her fiancé and Ukrainian soldier Vladyslav; her parents who were in the house went missing.[20] Two days later Shvets's parents were found dead under the rubble.[21]

On 15 January the State Emergency Service of Ukraine reported that 23 people had been killed by a Russian missile strike on the building.[22] By 1:15 p.m. (the next day) 43 reports of missing persons had been received, 72 people sustained injuries, including 13 children, and 39 were rescued.[22] In the afternoon of 15 January Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Telegram expressed his condolences to the families of 25 people who were killed in the attack.[23] In the morning of 16 January Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Valentyn Reznichenko updated the death toll to 35 people, including two children.[1] 39 people had been rescued and 75 wounded, 14 of these being children.[1] 35 residents of the building continued to be missing.[1] The destruction of the building left about 400 people homeless.[8] 236 apartments were destroyed.[5] The search and rescue operation was called off on Tuesday 17, when the death toll stood at 44 including five children. 79 people had been injured and 39 rescued.[24]

Among the victims was Mykhailo Korenovsky the head coach of Ukraine's national boxing team from Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.[25]

Weapon

The missile that struck the building was a Kh-22 anti-ship missile, the same type used in an attack on a shopping center in Kremenchuk on 27 June 2022.[26] Ukrainian Air Force Commander, Lieutenant General Mykola Oleschuk, said that the Ukrainian army at the time of the incident had no weapons to shoot down such missiles, and that during the year of full-scale war, out of 210 Kh-22 missiles launched in Ukraine, not a single one was shot down.[27] Oleshchuk called earlier reports about the downing of such missiles unreliable and erroneous.[28]

Russia launched five Kh-22 missiles across Ukraine on 14 January.[27]

Investigation

On 15 January 2023 the office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine states that the attack could only have been carried out by the 52nd Guards Aviation Regiment based in Shaikivka.[26] The same day a list of military personnel directly involved in the crime was published on the Molfar Global website (OSINT community). The names of 44 out of 52 people from the 52nd Guards Aviation Regiment were named.[29] This is the same regiment that struck the Amstor shopping center in Kremenchuk on June 27, 2022.[27]

On 16 January 2023 the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) confirmed the participation of the military of the 52nd Aviation Regiment of the Russian Federation in the missile attack.[30][31] It singled out six Russian soldiers in particular.[31]

Reactions

The building next day after the strike

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the Russian attack targeted civilian apartment blocks and as result was a war crime.[32] In his daily evening appeal of 15 January President Zelenskyy addressed the Russian citizens who had not spoken out against Russia's military invasion of Ukraine in Russian stating: "Your cowardly silence, an attempt to ride out what is happening, will end with these same terrorists coming for you one day."[33]

The United Nations called the images coming out from the aftermath of the attack "horrifying".[32]

The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs called the attack a war crime and noted that it indicates Russia's intention to escalate the war.[34]

President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda stated that Russia would definitely bear responsibility for attacks on peaceful cities.[35] On January 14 a three-day mourning was declared in Dnipro.[citation needed]

The Russian Ministry of Defence confirmed their responsibility for the missile strikes in Dnipro.[36] However, Vladimir Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov stated that Russian forces never attack residential buildings and that the residential building had probably collapsed because of a Ukrainian air defense counterattack.[37]

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