75 people were injured, the official said.
44 missing persons reports were received. The location of 11 people has been determined, the fate of the other 33 is currently unknown, Babachenko said.
“More than 550 rescuers, policemen, doctors, utility workers, volunteers are working non-stop. About half of the structures destroyed by the Russian missile have already been removed,” Valentin Reznichenko, head of the military administration of the Dnipropetrovsk region, announced on Sunday evening on the Telegram platform.
The mayor of Dnipro, Boriss Filatovs, previously predicted on the air of the telethon that the rescue operation will most likely continue until 3 am.
The hopes that it will be possible to find another survivor are minimal, Filatov was quoted as saying by the British broadcasting company BBC.
On Saturday, as a result of a Russian missile strike, the structures of two stairwells from the ninth to the second floor were destroyed in a nine-story residential building in Dnipro.
According to preliminary reports, 72 apartments were completely destroyed, 230 apartments were damaged.
In total, the house had 18 staircases with 36 apartments in each. The total population was 1100 people.
Three days of mourning have been declared in the city.
On Saturday, Russia carried out a massive shelling of Ukraine with missiles, including a strike in Dnipro.
According to the data of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a nine-story building in Dnipro was hit by an H-22 missile fired from a long-range bomber. Such missiles are designed to fight aircraft carrier strike groups, explained the representative of the Ukrainian army.
What happened on Saturday was the first massive Russian missile strike in the new year 2023 and the first since Valery Gerasimov was appointed as commander of the Russian invasion operation.
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