Five people in house injured in Russian missile attack on Kryvyi Rih – photos

Russian forces struck a house in the city of Kryvyi Rih in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on the evening of 19 December, leaving five people injured.

Source: Oleksandr Vilkul, Head of Kryvyi Rih Defence Council; Ukraine's Air Force; Serhii Lysak, Head of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration

Details: The Air Force reported a high-speed target flying towards Kryvyi Rih at around 23:00.

Later, Vilkul reported that a residential building had been hit in the city.

Subsequently, Lysak noted that a two-storey house had been severely damaged by the missile attack on Kryvyi Rih. A teenage girl and a man were rescued from under the rubble. In addition, windows in a 10-storey building were smashed.

Updated: Around 02:00 on 20 December, Vilkul announced that the search and rescue operation had been completed.

Quote: "The enemy struck a residential two-storey building with a ballistic missile.

Five people are currently known to have been injured – a 15-year-old girl, two men aged 38 and 49 and two women aged 30 and 82. Two of them were rescued from under the rubble by patrol police and the State Emergency Service. All of them are in a moderate condition."

Background: On the evening of 18 December, Russian forces launched an attack on Kryvyi Rih, damaging numerous apartment buildings, a hospital and the local power supply system.

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