Adviser to Ukraine's president resigns after comments about "Dnipro missile"

Oleksiy Aristovich, an advisor to Ukraine's president, resigned on Tuesday after a public outcry over comments he made suggesting Ukraine had shot down a Russian missile that killed at least 41 people in the city of Dnipro.

Aristovic announced his resignation after publicly apologizing and retracting his comments in a post on the Telegram app.

Ukraine's air force said a residential complex was hit by a Russian KH-22 missile, which Kyiv does not have the equipment to shoot down.

"I offer my sincere apologies to the victims, their relatives, the residents of Dnipro and everyone who was deeply hurt by my false account of why the Russian missile fell on a residential building," Aristovich wrote.

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