Rescuers called off the search on Tuesday for victims of the Russian missile strike on an apartment building in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro, with 20 people still missing and funerals being held in the grief-stricken community, reports BSS.
After the carnage, Ukrainians pressed ahead with talks to obtain more Western weapons, and Ukraine's army chief Valery Zaluzhny met Mark Milley, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, for the first time in person in Poland.
Ukrainian authorities said Tuesday the Russian strike in the eastern city of Dnipro at the weekend killed at least 45 people including six children.
The youngest was 11 months old, officials said, and one of the bodies recovered from the rubble Tuesday was that of a child.
The toll made Saturday's attack one of the deadliest since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine last February.
The Kremlin has denied responsibility for the strike that also injured 79 people.
Several hundred Dnipro residents gathered to pay their last respects to Mykhaylo Korenovsky, a Ukrainian boxing coach who died in the barrage.
"He gave many a start in life," said Taras Ivanov, whose son trained with Korenovsky.
"Everything inside me is shaking," the father told AFP, calling the coach a "legend."
Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky reiterated his pledge that everyone who "caused this terror" would be found and held to account.
At 1:00 pm (1100 GMT), emergency services said the search and rescue operations at the site were completed.
"Twenty people are still missing," they said.
In Moscow, at a monument to Ukrainian poet Lesya Ukrainka, a few residents laid flowers in the snow in memory of those killed in Dnipro.
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