Rescuers work at the site of a damaged residential building in Uman, Ukraine, on Friday. (Oleg Petrasyuk/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)
The death toll from a Russian missile strike on an apartment building in Uman has increased to at least 23, according to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry. The death toll includes four children, officials said.
The strike in Uman, which is located in the central Cherkasy region, injured at least 18 other people, Ukrainian officials said earlier Friday.
There were 46 apartments inside one of the buildings that were hit, of which 27 were completely destroyed, according to Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Ihor Klymenko.
East of Uman, a woman and her 2-year-old child were killed in a strike in Dnipro, authorities said.
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