Russian attack on Rzhyshchiv: Death toll rises to 9, search operation completed

Rescuers have retrieved one more body from under the rubble of a hall of residence in the town of Rzhyshchiv in Kyiv Oblast. Thus, thee number of fatalities of the recent Russian attack rose to nine. Source: State Emergency Service of Kyiv Oblast on Facebook; Viktoria Ruban, spokesperson of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, in a commentary for Ukrainska Pravda

Quote from Ruban: "The total number of victims of the attack is nine. The search and rescue operation in Rzhyshchiv has been completed." Details: The State Emergency Service added that search and rescue crews were clearing the rubble for almost 24 hours; the work was finished at 00:52 on 23 March.

Background:

• Air-raid warnings were issued in the city of Kyiv and a number of Ukrainian oblasts on the night of 21-22 March.
• Air defence systems were activated in Kyiv, Khmelnytskyi and Zhytomyr oblasts following a Russian attack.
• Ukraine's defence forces downed 16 out of 21 Russian Shahed-136 UAVs.

  In particular, eight enemy UAVs were detected over Kyiv, and all of them have been destroyed.

• Earlier, it was reported that three people died and 7 more were injured in the Russian attack on the town of Rzhyshchiv in Kyiv Oblast last night.

  Dormitories were damaged.

• Later, it became known that the number of victims of the nighttime drone attack by the Russians increased to 4, and 8 deaths were reported on the evening of 22 March.

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