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The strikes come as Ukraine's counter-offensive continues to gain ground.

The missile can't distinguish targets easily over land, making it a bad idea to fire it into a civilian area, unless you just don't care, experts say.

>> reporter: while rescue crews are still sifting through the debris, the chance of finding any more survivors is virtually zero. a gaping hole where dozens of families once lived. as you can see here, this building was completely annihilated all the way down to the ground floor of the the ukrainians say the reason why the damage is so stextensive is that the russians used a cruise missile called a kh-22. that is designed to destroy whole aircraft carrier strike groups. when it hit the building,...

A gaping hole where dozens of families once lived. as you can see this building was completely annihilated all the way down to the ground floor and the ukrainians say the reason why the damage is so extensive is that the rugs used a cruise missile called the kh-22 designed to destroy whole aircraft carrier strike groups and when it hit the building, the building just completely collapsed and buried dozens of people underneath. a miracle that anyone survived at all, ukrainian authorities say. kat...

Deadliest russian attacks on ukrainian civilians since the start of the war. the death toll rising to at least 29, one day after a rssian missile obliterated 72 unit apartment building in dnipro. officials say at least 40 people remain unaccounted for. the missile leaving a crater shattering windows for blocks, spraying shrapnel hundreds of yards. ukraine says it was a russian kh-22 missile, 38 feet long, weighing over six tons, designed to take out aircraft carriers. hours later, we were there....

Russia and Belarus began joint military exercises on Monday, which have triggered fears in Kyiv and the West that Moscow could use its ally to launch a new ground offensive in Ukraine.

Where it impacted and it is a kh-22 cruise missile which is a missile that is normally used, that is it designed to destroy aircraft carriers. that is what the missile that they say hit this building and when a missile like that hits the building like this, you have the destruction that you see before your very eyes right now. and i could tell you being on the ground here, seeing some of the people who are from this area, seeing some of the relatives, there is absolute grief and anger here on th...

Ukraines army is trying to effect the russian army and get them out of the country. that is a strategy of attrition. forced decisions because you are defeating the security force of the enemy. so this is certainly not a stalemate. but what needs to happen, you know, unfortunately, a couple of things. russia has to run out of ammunition which i dont see happening any time soon. there are certainly indicators that they have less and less ballistic missiles to fire. but in this case, i mean, as an ...

Really the death toll that was going up. what were seeing on the ground here, wolf, is the residents, the people we have been speaking to. theres a lot of grief. theres a lot of anger in russia, but they also say the ukrainian leadership, that they want more antiaircraft weapons to try and prevent something like this from happening as this war progresses, wolf. >> these were residential apartment buildings with a lot of men, women and children inside. fred pleitgen on the scene. stay safe, fred....

The ukraines. >> were looking at this apartment building that is just gone. the hole where the building once stood. does it make sense that this could be this kh-22, this cruise missile that did that damage. >> absolutely. and as your correspondent said, they have a very large warhead. it is about one ton. theyre designed, however, to attack ships. very inaccurate. probably the russians were aiming at one of the power stations. remember that the russians have conducted a campaign against the ele...