Mass Fire of Chernihiv: The number of victims has increased, there are children among the victims (photos)

As of the morning, the search and rescue operation is completed. 18 victims and 78 victims are known. Already, 18 people were victims of the Russian Armed Forces rocket strike on Chernihiv on April 17. This is discussed in the report of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine. "Chernihiv. The death toll has increased to 18 people in the morning. There are also 77 victims now, including four children," the statement said. In addition, the department emphasized that emergency rescue work continued.

As of now, more than 70% of the destroyed part of the building has already been dismantled. At 9:03 the head of the Chernihiv Ova Vyacheslav Chaus said that the search and rescue operation was completed. As a result of rocket strokes of the Armed Forces, 18 people were killed, 78 more were injured. Among the victims are minors. It is known that in the morning of April 17, the Russian occupation army attacked the densely populated area of ​​Chernihiv three rockets.

In a comment to the "public" head of the Chernihiv Ova, Vyacheslav Chaus stated that the Russian Federation attacked the city with three winged Iskander missiles. Meanwhile, according to the acting mayor Alexander Lomako, the hostile rockets were hit by the eight -storey building of social infrastructure and the intersection of two crowded streets.

In his turn, the deputy head of the Presidential Office of Ukraine Alexei Kuleba reported damage to four multi -storey buildings, hospitals, buildings of a higher education institution and dozens of cars. On the evening of April 17, the SES informed that a Russian blow in Chernihiv took the lives of 17 people. We will remind that President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky commented on April 17, commented on the Russian rocket attack on Chernihiv.