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Ukraine city mourns dead, cares for survivors of airstrike

The coffins of Maksym and Nataliia Shvets, a couple who died under the rubble after Russia hit their apartment block with a missile, are ready to be lowered during their funeral service in Dnipro, Ukraine, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023. The death toll from the weekend Russian missile strike on an apartment building, which triggered outrage, has climbed to 45. (AP Photo/Roman Hrytsyna)

A relative of the couple, Maksym and Nataliia Shvets, who died under the rubble after Russia hit their apartment block with a missile, cries on one of the coffins during a funeral service in Dnipro, Ukraine, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023. The death toll from the weekend Russian missile strike on an apartment building, which triggered outrage, has climbed to 45. (AP Photo/Roman Hrytsyna)

A cross and name tags of Maksym and Nataliia Shvets, a couple who died under the rubble after Russia hit their apartment block with a missile, are seen during their funeral service in Dnipro, Ukraine, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023. The death toll from the weekend Russian missile strike on an apartment building, which triggered outrage, has climbed to 45. (AP Photo/Roman Hrytsyna)

A relative of Maksym and Nataliia Shvets, a couple who died under the rubble after Russia hit their apartment block with a missile, mourns by the coffins during a funeral service in Dnipro, Ukraine, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023. The death toll from the weekend Russian missile strike on an apartment building, which triggered outrage, has climbed to 45. (AP Photo/Roman Hrytsyna)

Relatives of Maksym and Nataliia Shvets, a couple who died under the rubble after Russia hit their apartment block with a missile, cry near one of the coffins during a funeral service in Dnipro, Ukraine, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023. The death toll from the weekend Russian missile strike on an apartment building, which triggered outrage, has climbed to 45. (AP Photo/Roman Hrytsyna)

A woman lays flowers at a bus stop, for people who were killed in a Russian missile strike on an apartment building in the southeastern city of Dnipro, Ukraine, Monday, Jan. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Rescue workers clear the rubble from an apartment building that was destroyed in a Russian rocket attack at a residential neighbourhood in the southeastern city of Dnipro, Ukraine, Monday, Jan. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Rescue workers clear the rubble from an apartment building that was destroyed in a Russian rocket attack at a residential neighbourhood in the southeastern city of Dnipro, Ukraine, Monday, Jan. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Nadiia Yaroshenko, 38, desperately trying to locate her cat with a torch, that remains trapped in the damaged building on the edge to collapse in Dnipro, Ukraine, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2023. The white cat with blue and yellow eyes refused to go with the emergency service workers who tried to rescue him. He remains on his favourite place on the window that is blown out. The final death toll from a weekend Russian missile strike on an apartment building in southeastern Ukraine reached 45, officials said Tuesday, as the body of another child was pulled from the wreckage. The strike in the city of Dnipro was the war's deadliest attack since the spring on civilians at one location. (AP/Roman Hrytsyna)

Ukraine city mourns dead, cares for survivors of airstrike