A 20-year-old man remains trapped under the rubble of a multi-storey residential building in the city of Ternopil that was damaged in a Russian strike. Emergency workers have managed to contact him and are trying to rescue him.

Source: Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko, as reported by Suspilne Ternopil, a local branch of Ukrainian public broadcaster

Details: "They managed to contact the young man, there is hope he is alive," Klymenko said.

The young man's mother, Oksana, said her son had been on the eighth floor of the building at the moment of the Russian attack. Emergency workers are trying to rescue the man.

"They [emergency workers – ed.] are not saying anything: 'we can't get to him', and that's it. They're not saying anything, they don't know anything. So I wait. I hope that God gives him strength and endurance," Oksana said.

Details: Later, Ternopil Mayor Serhii Nadal said that emergency workers had managed to retrieve a person from under the rubble. It is not yet known whether this is the same 20-year-old man.

Background:

• On the night of 18-19 November, Russia launched a combined attack on Ukrainian cities. Explosions were heard in Khmelnytskyi, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne, Lviv and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts.
• The residential building destroyed in the city of Ternopil was struck by a Russian Kh-101 missile.
• The attack killed 25 people in the city, including three children. Another 73 residents were injured.

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