Posted on 01/16/23
| News Source: Arutz-7
20 people were killed and 73 were injured when a missile hit a residential building in the city of Dnipro, Ukraine yesterday (Saturday). Russia launched an extensive missile attack on most of Ukraine's provinces yesterday morning, and in the afternoon launched another barrage, in a move that could be seen as an act to escalate the war.
Dnipro is Ukraine’s largest Jewish city, and the Jews who live there have been very badly affected. In addition to their terrible fear of being killed by missiles, there is a severe power shortage and Jewish people are suffering in the pitch black and freezing cold.
Three strategic infrastructure facilities were damaged in Kharkiv and Lviv districts. Explosions also occurred in the Kiev and Odessa regions. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that all those involved in the terrorist attack will bear maximum responsibility, and government officials blamed Belarus and claimed that some of the missiles were launched from its territory.
One of the Russian missiles hit critical civilian infrastructure in Kiev, according to Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko. He added that fragments of another Russian missile shot down by Ukraine's air defense fell on an uninhabited house in Kiev's Hulusievsky district. As a result, the explosion caused a fire that was extinguished within an hour. There were no casualties.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sonak promised yesterday to supply Ukraine with heavy, advanced battle tanks, which will help its forces ‘fend off the Russian forces’. In a phone conversation with President Zelensky, Sonak promised to deliver ‘Challenger 2’ tanks to Kiev to ‘increase our support in Ukraine’. Zelensky thanked Britain on Twitter for making decisions that, according to him, "will not only strengthen us on the battlefield, but also send the right message to other partners."