Attack on Dnipro: memorial sites appear in Russian cities
Places of tragedy began to appear in Russian cities in memory of people who died as a result of the Russian attack on Dnipro, where 45 people died.
Source: Meduza [Russian news outlet]
Details: In particular, a place of tragedy appeared near the monument of Taras Shevchenko, the renowned Ukrainian poet, in Krasnodar. People brought flowers, candles and children's toys to it; a photo of the destroyed house was placed near the monument.
A similar site also appeared near the monument to Shevchenko in St. Petersburg: next to it, residents of St. Petersburg used candles to lay out the 'Dnipro' word.
Another memorial site for those who died in the attack on Dnipro appeared next to the monument to the victims of political repression in Yekaterinburg.
Residents of Moscow brought flowers, candles and toys to the monument of Lesya Ukrainka. However, on the night of 18 January, the improvised site was removed by the employees of local utility services.
Police car is on duty near thar site in Moscow. According to OVD-Info [Russian independent human rights media project], the police detained four people the day before.
One of them is accused of petty hooliganism, he was left at the police station until morning. It is not known what happened to the other detainees.
Vesna [Russian news outlet] reports that after the arrests near the original memorial site, Moscow residents began to bring flowers to the monument to Taras Shevchenko.
Background:
- As of 18 January, 12 bodies and body fragments that have been found during clearing away the rubble of a multi-storey building in Dnipro city destroyed by a Russian missile on 14 January remain unidentified; another 17 people are still on the missing persons' list.
- On 14 January 14, during a massive missile attack, the Russians hit a high-rise building in Dnipro.
- The strike was carried out by an Kh-22 missile designed to destroy aircraft carrier groups at sea.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, promises to punish all those behind this crime.
- Updated information indicates that the number of deaths caused by the Russian missile attack on a residential building in the city of Dnipro on 14 January increased to 45 people, including 6 children.
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