On February 1st 2025, Ukrainian rescue workers spent the night rescuing 22 people from the rubble and carrying out the dead on stretchers after a Russian missile attack on a residential building in the central Ukrainian city of Poltava.

     On February 1st 2025, Ukrainian rescue workers discovered another body at the site of the Russian missile attack on a residential building in the central Ukrainian city of Poltava. Paramedics spent the night rescuing 22 people from the rubble and carrying them away on stretchers. Firefighters and dozens of rescue workers searched through the rubble and carried the dead away on stretchers.

   A missile hit a high-rise apartment building in the city of Poltava and it exploded. The first to fifth floors of the building were destroyed, and most of it turned into rubble, causing a fire. Eighteen nearby apartment buildings and a kindergarten were also damaged. Smoke rose from the piles of rubble outside the building, and some of it was twisted lumps of metal and construction materials. The number of Ukrainian casualties from the Russian rocket attack on Poltava reached 14, including two children aged 9 and 12. A further 20 people were injured, four of whom were infants aged just three months.

    The General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine reported that, according to preliminary data analysis, the Russian military had attacked with Kh-22 supersonic cruise missiles. The Russian military regularly attacked Ukrainian regions with various weapons, extensively destroying civilian facilities in Ukraine with drones, rockets, artillery and various types of bombs. Russian authorities deny targeting civilian Ukrainians. Even though President Donald Trump advocated for an immediate ceasefire at the White House, the fighting in Ukraine did not subside.

Warning: Rescuers found another body at the site of a Russian missile attack on a residential building in Poltava / Photo by the SES