The rescue work has now been going on for just over a day.

So far, 25 dead bodies have been dug out of the rubble after the high-rise building.

Nine floors have collapsed and around forty people are still missing.

On Sunday afternoon, Dnipro Mayor Borys Filatovatt said the hope of finding any of them alive is minimal.

With up to 60 killed and more than 70 injured, many of them children, Saturday's robot attack on Dnipro is believed to be one of the bloodiest so far in Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine.

Strategic Bombing

The robot that extinguished all these lives was likely fired from a strategic bomber somewhere in the airspace above the Kursk region of Russia, more than 50 miles from the impact site.

It was one of several robots this Saturday, but according to Oleksy Arestovich, a military officer and adviser to Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, its intended target was likely something other than the Dnipro high-rise.

He believes that the robot went off course when Ukrainian air defense tried and partially succeeded in shooting it down.

The statement was made in an interview on a YouTube channel and received immediate criticism from, among others, the mayor of Dnipro, as it was considered "favoring Russia's cause".

Ukraine's air force claims it does not have the kind of weapons needed to combat this type of high-speed robot, whose warhead weighs 950 kilograms and is designed to swarm aircraft carriers.

They also believe that the robot has limited accuracy when fired from long distances.

"Russia is to blame"

According to Meduza, however, Arestovich has stuck to his version – that the target was different and that Ukraine's air defenses knocked the robot off course – but that it was Russia's aggression that caused the tragedy:

- Nobody will blame Ukraine.

It didn't happen after our anti-aircraft drone crashed in Poland killing two people and it won't happen this time either.

The Russian Federation's guilt is unequivocal and can neither be erased nor weakened, he writes on social media.

On Sunday, Russia's Defense Ministry also confirmed that it had carried out a large number of robotic attacks against targets in Ukraine, and that "the missiles hit all identified targets", according to the state news agency Interfax.

The casualties in Dnipro were not mentioned in the communiqué.