Death toll at 40 from Russian missile strike on Ukraine apartment building

An emergency specialist walks among debris at the site where a building was heavily damaged in recent shelling during the Russia-Ukraine conflict in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, Jan. 16, 2023.[VOA]

Ukrainian officials said Monday the death toll from a Russian missile strike on an apartment building in Dnipro had risen to at least 40, with rescue crews still searching the rubble for any survivors.

Dnipropetrovsk regional Governor Valentyn Reznichenko said on social media said the attack had injured 75 people and that the fate of 30 others was unknown. Thirty-nine have been rescued.