Britain to send battle tanks to Ukraine, Dnipro death toll rises to 18

The decease toll from Russia's rocket onslaught connected the Ukrainian metropolis of Dnipro has climbed to 18, officials said connected Sunday, portion Britain said overnight it volition soon nonstop a squadron of its main conflict tanks to assistance Ukraine's defence.

Seventy-three radical were injured with 40 successful infirmary including 4 successful intensive care, Valentyn Reznichenko, politician of the Dnipropetrovsk portion successful cardinal eastbound Ukraine, wrote astatine 7:25 a.m. section clip (0525 GMT) connected the Telegram messaging app.

Rescuers toiled done the nighttime searching for survivors. Emergency workers said earlier they had heard people screaming for assistance from underneath piles of debris.

"The rescue cognition is ongoing. The destiny of much than 40 radical remains unknown," Reznichenko said, adding that the onslaught had destroyed 72 apartments and damaged much than 230.

Ukraine's apical subject bid said connected Sunday that Russia launched 3 aerial strikes, 57 rocket strikes and carried retired 69 attacks from dense limb rocket salvo systems connected Saturday. Ukrainian forces changeable down 26 rockets.

There was nary contiguous remark from Moscow astir the attacks, which correspond Russia's largest question of strikes successful 2 weeks and which came arsenic Ukraine was observing the accepted Old New Year oregon the Orthodox New Year.

The Saturday strikes deed besides captious infrastructure successful Kyiv and different places. Officials warned this would restrict power supply for the superior and ample swathes of the state implicit the adjacent fewer days.

As ground fighting continued successful Ukraine's east, Britain followed France and Poland with promises of further weapons, saying it would sent 14 of its Challenger 2 main conflict tanks arsenic good arsenic different precocious artillery enactment successful the coming weeks.

The archetypal dispatch of Western-made tanks to Ukraine is apt to beryllium viewed by Moscow arsenic escalation of the conflict. The Russian embassy successful London said the tanks would resistance retired the confrontation.

Germany is present expected to travel under pressure to travel suit arsenic Kyiv continues to plea for precocious subject equipment.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his advisers person "analyzed the subject picture, looked astatine the strategical interaction of the UK's enactment and identified a model wherever helium thinks the UK and its allies tin person maximum impact," a authorities spokesperson said successful a statement.

Russia invaded Ukraine connected Feb. 24 successful what Moscow calls "a peculiar subject operation", but which Ukraine and its allies accidental is an unprovoked aggression that has since killed thousands, displaced millions and turned overmuch of cities similar Dnipro into rubble.