the death toll on an apartment block in dnipro on saturday, the death toll has now risen to 36. cnn s clare sebastian is live in london. what more do we know about the attacks overnight and russia s strategy here? reporter: christine, good morning. underscoring the constant threat that ukrainians are continuing to be under these kinds of reports sadly not out of the ordinary. we re hearing as you say this morning on the southern front from ukrainian officials the city of nikopol just across the river from the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, over a dozen private homes were hit there, a gas main as well. to the northeast in the town of zaporizhzhia, the regional capital there, more shelling, private homes were hit as well there. and injuries reported 9 and 15-year-old among those taken to hospital. separately, we had a russian-backed official in the city of donetsk which is occupied by russia saying that three rockets there hit civilian targets including a meats processing facility,
the closet. the electricity was still was still on and the gas was leaking, the gas main, the gas line was still leaking from the front of the house with the electricity on and me and the dog were stuck in here and so my neighbors across the street and some other fellas kicked the door in and kind of got us out of here. thank god for that. you were telling me you thought it might have been the end. yes, sir, it was scary, yeah. because when i smelled the gas and the electricity, it was not nice. it s incredible when you look around the damage. your entire roof is gone. we re getting sun down on us because the roof is missing. yeah, when i what do you think when you look around your home, it s like two or three feet off its foundation. it shifted two or three feet off the foundation like i was riding on a train. it shook and just pray the lord to get me out of here and thank you, jesus, he did. i m here for another day. thank god. you were telling me you made it throug
their trucks. so a call immediately went out to stow police detective ken mifflin. when i got there, i saw the fire department still putting out the blaze. someone had taken probably a pipe wrench to disconnect the gas line. and it was blowing out natural gas. it was a very large roaring sound. at that point, the gas hadn t ignited? no. it could have possibly blown up. the person who said to the fire poured gasoline all the way to the gas meter and on top of the gas meter. the idea was fire starts, the gasoline goes to the gas main, and possibly destroys the house, and everybody in it? absolutely. mifflin found the purk family sheltered at a neighbor s house, and asked the father, scott purk, to step outside. we actually went over to my unmarked detective bureau car, and we sat in my car, where it was nice and warm. the first question is, who
their trucks. so a call immediately went out to stow police detective ken mifflin. when i got there, i saw the fire department still putting out the blaze. someone had taken probably a pipe wrench to disconnect the gas line. and it was blowing out natural gas. it was a very large roaring sound. at that point, the gas hadn t ignited? no. it could have possibly blown up. the person who said to the fire poured gasoline all the way to the gas meter and on top of the gas meter. the idea was fire starts, the gasoline goes to the gas main, and possibly destroys the house, and everybody in it? absolutely. mifflin found the purk family sheltered at a neighbor s house, and asked the father, scott purk, to step outside. we actually went over to my unmarked detective bureau car, and we sat in my car, where it was nice and warm. the first question is, who
reporter: this is what the slow route of russia in southern ukraine looks like, kyiv s forces are pushing close to kherson, the first city the kremlin took. here so many people being evacuated day by day, and the area quiet in contrust to these impacts we see all around in the fields, just constant barrage over the past days. the bus is the last way out. the village has been ukraine s last position for days, so this is what russia left of it. the noise is the village gas main leaking furiously. putin s war of annihilation was sure not to overlook this school, its front torn off by a