The number of victims in Ternopil has increased due to the Russian attack

In Ternopil, the number of victims from Russian missile strikes on November 19 has risen to 34. As of the morning of November 23, the search and rescue operation has been completed.

This was reported by the deputy head of the Ternopil Oblast Administrative District, Taras Pastukh.

It is noted that the bodies of 33 of the deceased have already been identified, and forensic experts are establishing the identity of another victim, whose remains were found yesterday.

“Representatives of the National Police are working, as criminal proceedings have been opened. They are collecting evidence regarding the means by which the house was destroyed. The preliminary assumption is that it was a Russian X-101 missile,” Pastukh reported.

He said that during the inspection of this house, the remains of other people who are currently missing may be found. There are currently six of them: two men, three women and one small child.

“We still have hope that these works of the investigators themselves can still yield results so that the people who died in this building can be properly buried… It is possible that we cannot find the remains of people’s bodies, because the destruction could have caused death, but that temperature, that missile hitting the building – could have destroyed the fragments, which we will unfortunately no longer be able to find,” he said.

It was previously reported that rescuers from the State Emergency Service discovered the body of another person under the rubble of a house destroyed by a Russian missile strike in Ternopil .

The day before, it became known that 10 people, including one child, are missing in Ternopil after the Russian attack on November 19.

As a reminder, on the night of November 19, Russian troops carried out a series of strikes on the western regions of Ukraine , in particular on Ternopil and Lviv regions.

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