Russia’s missiles hit Dnipro apartment block as children injured – live

Jump to content Sign up to our newsletters Subscribe News Sport Voices Culture Lifestyle Travel Premium News World Europe Stuti Mishra , Tara Cobham Saturday 29 July 2023 13:30 Comments Close Russian missiles hit apartment block and Ukrainian security service building in Dnipro Russian missiles have hit an apartment block and a Ukrainian security service building in Dnipro, leaving two children injured, officials have said. President Vladimir Putin ‘s forces injured at least nine people, including two teenagers aged between 14 and 17, in the strike on the central city on Friday evening, according to Serhii Lysak, the head of the region’s military administration. Dnipro Mayor Borys Filatov said it was the third time the SBU security service building had been targeted. Both buildings were largely empty – the residential building because it had just been completed and units were being put up for sale. Pictures posted on social media showed part of one building reduced to rubble and debris strewn across a large courtyard. Russia says it does not target civilian sites. Its troops have intensified evening and night-time missile attacks on a variety of targets – focusing in particular on port facilities around the city of Odesa after Moscow pulled out of an agreement allowing grain shipments from Ukraine ‘s ports. Meanwhile, Kyiv has made progress in driving back Russian troops, the commander on the southern front said on Friday, as its counteroffensive appears to be ramping up. 1690633829 Russia has received around 30 peace initiatives on Ukraine through official and unofficial channels, the TASS news agency reported on Saturday, citing Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. Tara Cobham 29 July 2023 13:30 1690632029 Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited Ukrainian troops near the eastern Bakhmut front line on Saturday. Photos published by Zelenskiy on Twitter showed him meeting troops and looking at maps in a dimly lit, windowless concrete-walled room. He praised Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces. “The performance of tasks for the sake of Ukraine by you, guys, is truly heroic,” Zelenskiy wrote. Tara Cobham 29 July 2023 13:00 1690630331 Russian missiles hit apartment block and Ukrainian security service building in Dnipro Tara Cobham 29 July 2023 12:32 1690625078 Ukrainian firefighters push out a fire in an administrative building after missiles strike in Dnipro Rescuers stand outside a residential building partially destroyed after missiles strike in Dnipro Ukrainian rescuers work at the site of a damaged administrative building after shelling in Dnipro Tara Cobham 29 July 2023 11:04 1690621651 Four African heads of state will attend Russia’s annual Navy Day Parade in St Petersburg on Sunday, the Kremlin said on Saturday, with five more African countries also sending other representation. African leaders pressed Putin on Friday to move ahead with their plan to end the Ukraine conflict and to renew a deal crucial to Africa on the safe export of Ukrainian grain, which Moscow tore up last week. Tara Cobham 29 July 2023 10:07 1690618498 President Volodymr Zelenskiy said he had he had convened emergency meetings with the SBU, the interior ministry, emergency services and local officials following the missile strikes on Dnipro on Friday evening. Posting on social media, he described the hits on an apartment block and a Ukrainian security services building as ‘Russian missile terror again’. He said: ‘We will do everything to bring Russia to full punishment for aggression and terror against our people. These b*****ds will answer. We will do everything for justice.’ Tara Cobham 29 July 2023 09:14 1690616112 Kyiv’s troops are pushing through heavy intense artillery fire from Russian forces to advance in the east of Ukraine, the commander of the country’s armed forces has said. Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi said that despite meeting stiff resistance, Ukraine’s ground forces are making ‘gradual advances in the direction of Bakhmut in the eastern Donetsk region. The city, which is now occupied by Russian forces, has gained symbolic significance for both Kyiv and Moscow having been the scene for some of the most intense fighting of the war. ‘The enemy fiercely clings to every centimetre, conducting intense artillery and mortar fire,’ Col Gen Syrskyi said in a statement. ‘The enemy fiercely clings to every centimetre, conducting intense artillery and mortar fire,’ commander of Ukraine’s ground forces says Tara Cobham 29 July 2023 08:35 1690612208 A British former spy who wrote a dossier on Russian interference in the US election says he believes Vladimir Putin will be out of power within a year. Christopher Steele, who ran the Russia desk at MI6 in London between 2006 and 2009, told Sky News the West needed to prepare for the end of the Putin era. He said scenarios include: Mr Putin dies from illness or is assassinated; he is toppled due to the failure of the Ukraine war; he stands down and endorses a successor; there is a military coup or there is a popular uprising. Stuti Mishra 29 July 2023 07:30 1690610408 African leaders pressed Russian president Vladimir Putin yesterday to move ahead with their plan to end the Ukraine conflict and to renew a deal crucial to Africa on the safe wartime export of Ukrainian grain, which Moscow tore up last week. While not directly critical of Russia, their interventions on the second day of a summit were more concerted and forceful than those that African countries have voiced until now. They served as reminders of the depth of African concern at the consequences of the war, especially rising food prices. “This war must end. And it can only end on the basis of justice and reason,” African Union commission chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat told Mr Putin and African leaders in St Petersburg. “The disruptions of energy and grain supplies must end immediately. The grain deal must be extended for the benefit of all the peoples of the world, Africans in particular.” Russian president Vladimir Putin, African leaders and heads of delegations posing for a family photo at the second Russia-Africa summit in Saint Petersburg Stuti Mishra 29 July 2023 07:00 1690608654 A missile strike on Dnipro left at least nine people injured, according to Serhii Lysak, the head of the region’s military administration. Those injured include two teenagers between ages 14 and 17, two women who are around 20 years of age, a 77-year-old woman and four men between 18 and 53 years old. Doctors said the injured victims are in “satisfactory condition” and will be treated at home, according to Mr Lysak. Stuti Mishra 29 July 2023 06:30 Rescuers stand outside a residential building partially destroyed after missiles strike in Dnipro on Friday AFP via Getty Images Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged in Please refresh your browser to be logged in