Dozens of residents of a high-rise building in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro are still missing after a Russian missile hit them on Saturday.

Rescue workers continued to search for more than 30 people in the rubble of the apartment building, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in his video address on Sunday evening.

At the same time he made serious accusations against the silent part of the Russian population.

The death toll in Dnipro continued to rise over the weekend.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg spoke out in favor of delivering more heavy weapons to Ukraine.

At least 35 dead in Dnipro

"We are fighting for every human being," emphasized Zelenskyj, referring to the people buried in Dnipro.

"And the rescue work will continue as long as there is even the slightest chance of saving a life." The military governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Valentyn Resnichenko, spoke of 35 deaths so far on Monday.

More bodies were recovered from the rubble during the night.

Two children were among the dead.

35 people are still missing.

"The chance that we will find any more survivors is minimal," Dnipro Mayor Boris Filatov told Reuters.

In his video message, Zelenskyy also addressed the people in the neighboring country in Russian: "I would like to address everyone in Russia who, even now, does not have a few words of condemnation for this terror, although they see and understand everything clearly.

Your cowardly silence will only end with those terrorists coming after you too one day.”

EU chief diplomat Josep Borrell condemned the actions of the Russian side as "inhumane aggression, with civilians and children as direct targets".

The crimes would not go unpunished.

And the EU will support Ukraine as long as it is necessary.

The attack on Dnipro, in the Dnipropetrovsk region, was the most momentous of several attacks on Saturday.

The most violent wave of Russian attacks since the turn of the year was once again directed against the Ukrainian energy infrastructure.

In addition to Dnipropetrovsk, the region around the capital Kyiv and Kharkiv in the east were also badly affected.

Belarus: "Defensive" air force exercises with Russian units

Russia and Belarus begin joint air force exercises in Belarus today.

Minsk explains that the exercises are defensive.

Unofficial military surveillance channels on Telegram report that since the beginning of the year, several Russian fighter jets, helicopters and military transport planes have arrived in Belarus - eight fighter jets and four cargo planes on Sunday alone.

Reuters could not verify these reports.

The First Deputy State Secretary of the Belarusian Security Council, Pavel Muravejko, writes on Telegram that Ukraine provoked Belarus.

However, one reacts cautiously.

"We have the necessary forces and means to respond to any manifestation of aggression or a terrorist threat on our territory."

Cargo ship from Ukraine runs aground – Bosphorus blocked

A cargo ship coming from Ukraine has run aground in the Bosphorus.

The strait between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean was then temporarily closed, as the Turkish Directorate-General for Coastal Safety announced on Twitter on Monday.

Special ships tried to free the 142 meter long MKK-1 freighter, it said.

The incident happened near Umuryeri, between the second and third bridges over the Bosphorus.

The freighter sails under the flag of the island state of Palau.

It was initially unclear what the ship was loading and whether it was traveling as part of the so-called grain agreement.