There are already 19 people killed in the Russian attack that suffered a television tower on Monday in northern Ukraine, while the injured number 9, according to Ukrainian agencies on Tuesday.
“Unfortunately, we have to say that the number of victims is higher” to the encryption in the first balance made after the Rivne station bombing, said the head of the Rivne Military Administration, Vitaliy Koval, according to the news agency Ukrinform.
“The rubble is still being removed and, at 08:30 local time (06:30 GMT) this morning, we have 19 people dead and 9 injured,” Koval said.
As he explained, the number of victims is not yet definitive and it is expected that the debris removal work in the area can be completed within the next few hours.
The attack on the television station and an annex building of an administrative nature occurred on Monday morning when two Russian missiles hit the area, according to sources.
According to Kobal, access to television had already been restored in the afternoon in the northern part of the Rivne region, through the cable network.
The town is just 160 kilometers from the border with Poland, which is part of NATO, and the attack coincided with an advance of the Russian invasion.
(With information from EFE, AFP and AP)
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