2023 Dnipro residential building airstrike

[4] An explosion was heard at approximately 3:41 p.m., when a Kh-22 missile hit a multi-storey building at Naberezhna Peremohy St [uk], 118, Sobornyi District, Dnipro.

[22] In the afternoon of 15 January Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Telegram expressed his condolences to the families of 25 people who were killed in the attack.

[23] In the morning of 16 January Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Valentyn Reznichenko updated the death toll to 35 people, including two children.

[27] On 15 January 2023, the office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine stated that the attack could only have been carried out by the 52nd Guards Aviation Regiment based in Shaikivka.

[26] The same day, a list of military personnel directly involved in the missile launch was published on the Molfar Global website (OSINT community) in which 44 out of 52 people from the 52nd Guards Aviation Regiment were named.

[27] On 16 January 2023, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) confirmed the participation of the military of the 52nd Aviation Regiment of the Russian Federation in the missile attack.

[31] Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the Russian attack targeted civilian apartment blocks and as a result was a war crime.

[36] President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda stated that Russia would definetley bear responsibility for attacks on peaceful cities.

[42] A memorial square is planned to be created as a part of the site of the destroyed building Naberezhna Peremohy St [uk], 118.

[43] On 20 October 2024, Dmitry Golenkov, a bomber pilot and chief of staff of Shaykovka air base who was accused of conducting the attack, was found dead in an apple orchard in Bryansk Oblast in an apparent assassination.

Aftermath of the attack
View of the building at night.
The building next day after the strike
Proposed memorial in Dnipro is based on this memorial in Würzburg , Germany