A small memorial site has been created in Moscow after the Russian attack on a block of flats in Dnipro, Ukraine at the weekend. Six children were among the 45 dead. 20 people are still missing. On Monday evening, many laid flowers at a monument to a Ukrainian poet in central Moscow. A picture of the block of flats that was hit was also put down, and several people put down stuffed animals in memory of the children who were killed. But the session was brutally shut down. According to the Russian human rights organization OVD-Info, which is described as credible, four people have been arrested. Demonstrations against what the authorities in the Kremlin call a special operation are among the rarities in Russia, and have also been severely cracked down on. 45 people died after the bomb attack that hit an apartment block in Dnipro in Ukraine on Saturday. Photo: Pavel Petrov / AP The population is instead fed war propaganda in the Russian-controlled media, although they are not spared images and descriptions of the horrors of war. Reporter Morten Jentoft in news, who is in Ukraine, says people there are more concerned with the fact that the vast majority of Russians do not seem to care about the civilian suffering in Ukraine. Ukrainians understand many are critical of Putin, but wonder why so few dare to show resistance. Gathered around boxing coach The search for the attack on Saturday has now ended. Major clean-up work is underway at the block of flats from the Soviet era, which was heavily smashed in the rocket attack on Saturday. More than 230 apartments were destroyed and 400 people are left homeless. Family and friends said goodbye to boxing coach Mykhaylo Korenovsky, who died in the attack against Dnipro at the weekend. Photo: VITALII MATOKHA / AFP At the same time, relatives are burying their dead after what is one of the deadliest attacks in the nearly year-long war. In a sports hall in Dnipro, hundreds of people gathered around the coffin of boxing trainer Mykhaylo Korenovsky, who has meant a lot to people in the city. – He gave many people a new start in life, says Taras Ivanov to the AFP news agency. Forced to step down Russia has denied that it was they who must bear responsibility for the attack, which according to the Ukrainian army was hit by a Russian missile of the type X-22. The weapon was developed during the Soviet period and intended for aircraft carriers. A Ukrainian government official has been fired after he said it was the Ukrainian air defense that shot down a Russian missile, which in turn crashed into the apartment block. At the same time, fierce fighting is taking place in the Donetsk region. The city of Bakhmut in particular is exposed to heavy bomb attacks, while reports about who is in control of the city of Soledar are spreading. Ukraine’s plea for more weapons is about to be heard, and the country has, among other things, received promises of more tanks from Britain.
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