Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said 24 people, including three teenagers, died following a Russian missile attack that flattened a Kyiv apartment building.
Zelenskiy made his comments as he led the mourning for one of the deadliest attacks on the capital in the four-year-old war.
The cruise missile hit the nine-storey corner apartment block on Thursday during what the Ukrainian air force said was Russia’s biggest barrage on the country of the full-scale invasion.
Emergency workers finished digging through the rubble searching for victims after more than a day, Zelenskiy said on X.
Crowds of grieving people – many of them children – streamed towards a makeshift memorial beneath a tree near the destroyed building.
