January 15, 2023 Russia-Ukraine news - CNN

An exigency idiosyncratic views the tract of a residential gathering deed by a Russian rocket connected Sunday successful Dnipro. (Yevhenii Zavhorodnii/Global Images Ukraine/Getty Images)

The Russian rocket that hit an flat artifact successful Dnipro connected Saturday was "no doubt" a Kh-22 missile, the Air Force Command of the Ukranian Armed forces said Sunday connected its Facebook page.

"[A] Radar detected the approximate motorboat site, altitude, and formation speed. There is nary uncertainty that it was an X-22 [Kh-22] missile," it said.

"The Armed Forces of Ukraine deficiency the firepower capabilities for shooting down this benignant of missile. Since the opening of Russia's subject aggression, much than 210 missiles of this benignant person been launched astatine the territory of Ukraine. None of them person been changeable down by our aerial defence systems," the station added.

Yurii Ihnat, spokesperson for the Ukrainian aerial force, said the Kh-22 "was fired from a Tu-22M3 long-range bomber, launched from the country adjacent Kursk and the Sea of Azov."

"There were a full of 5 launches of these missiles," Ihnat said.

Speaking of Saturday's attack, Ihnat said: "They deed with specified a rocket a densely populated metropolis with people, women, children. There is nary mentation and justification for this violent act." 

Originally designed arsenic an anti-ship missile, the Kh-22 is an older and little close limb than astir modern missiles. But Western analysts accidental it is lone close to a radius of astir 500 meters (about 1,600 feet).

CNN reported past June that it was besides a Kh-22 that deed a buying halfway successful Kremenchuk successful cardinal Ukraine.

The Russian Defense Ministry said the people successful June was a installation that repaired subject vehicles, which was respective 100 meters from the buying center. At slightest 18 radical were killed successful that attack.

The decease toll from the Russian rocket onslaught connected an flat artifact successful Dnipro roseate to 20 connected Sunday, the time after missiles and explosions were heard crossed the country.

At slightest 73 radical were wounded successful the onslaught connected the nine-story flat building, including 4 who are successful captious condition, Valentyn Reznichenko, the caput of the Dnipropetrovsk determination subject medication said.

Ukrainian soldiers occurrence a projectile from a self-propelled cannon connected the beforehand enactment successful Bakhmut connected December 26, 2022. (Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters)

Last fall, arsenic Ukraine won backmost ample swaths of territory successful a bid of counterattacks, it pounded Russian forces with American-made artillery and rockets.

Guiding immoderate of that artillery was a homemade targeting strategy that Ukraine developed connected the battlefield.

A portion of Ukrainian-made bundle has turned readily disposable tablet computers and smartphones into blase targeting tools that are present utilized wide crossed the Ukrainian military.

The effect is simply a mobile app that feeds outer and different quality imagery into a real-time targeting algorithm that helps units adjacent the beforehand nonstop occurrence onto circumstantial targets.

The targeting app is among dozens of examples of battlefield innovations that Ukraine has travel up with implicit astir a twelvemonth of war, often uncovering inexpensive fixes to costly problems.

Ukraine has adjacent developed its ain anti-ship weapon, the Neptune, based connected Soviet rocket designs that can target the Russian fleet from astir 200 miles away.

Read much connected Ukraine's battlefield innovation here.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, Wagner radical founder, attends a gathering successful St. Petersburg connected June 16, 2016. (Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images/FILE)

The laminitis and caput of Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, posted a video Saturday claiming helium visited Soledar aft it was taken implicit by his mercenaries "in 2 weeks."

Kyiv has disputed Wagner's assertion that it present controls the tiny town, which holds important symbolic worth but is not considered strategically pivotal. The municipality has besides caused infighting betwixt Prigozhin's backstage forces and Russia's Defense Ministry implicit who deserves recognition for the assault.

In the video, the Wagner mercenary person said helium came to municipality to grant medals to his fighters — who helium says were astir exclusively liable for capturing Soledar.

The video shows Prigozhin lasting with a antheral who helium calls “a commandant who helped to instrumentality implicit Soledar.”

According to Prigozhin, Ukrainian soldiers who refused to surrender were killed. He said, “the bodies of Ukrainian soldiers volition beryllium sent backmost to their motherland.”

The backstage subject contractor has heavy recruited from Russian prisons implicit the past 9 months. Previously it has deployed contingents to Syria and respective African countries. 

Prigozhin credited what helium described arsenic a wealthiness of warring instrumentality and communications systems for giving his unit an borderline successful battle.

What Ukraine is saying: Kyiv's subject has said that Wagner fighters, immoderate without assemblage armor and carrying lone grenades, person been killed successful their hundreds aft launching 1 battle aft different against Soledar. 

The Ukrainian subject said precocious Saturday that heavy battles for the municipality continue, with 1 determination person describing the concern arsenic "difficult but controlled."

More connected Wagner's leader: Prigozhin has been an progressively disposable fig successful the struggle successful Ukraine, visiting Wagner fighters connected the beforehand enactment and gathering erstwhile convicts who person completed their six-month circuit of work with Wagner. Prigozhin had promised them that successful instrumentality for warring they would beryllium pardoned and beryllium capable to instrumentality home, alternatively than to prison. 

He has often contrasted the achievements of his Wagner fighters with what helium has criticized arsenic the mediocre enactment of the subject constitution successful Russia — a uncommon illustration of unfastened disagreement wrong Russia astir the behaviour of the Ukraine campaign.