Video shows emergency workers removing rubble from damaged offices and residential buildings in the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia.

MORE: At least 22 civilians were killed, and dozens wounded Thursday, July 14, in a Russian cruise missile strike on the central Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia by a submarine in the Black Sea, Ukrainian officials said.

Ukraine's military said Vinnytsia, a usually quiet city 125 miles southwest of Kyiv, was hit by three Russian Kalibr cruise missiles fired from an unnamed submarine, and that Ukrainian forces had shot down two others.

The twisted remains of burned-out cars and smoldering rubble lay in the street as emergency workers clear the rubble from the ground floor of the office building.

A missile hit the car park of the 9-story "Yuvileinyi" office block at about 10.50 a.m. (0750 GMT), the State Emergency Service said. Nearby residential buildings were damaged in the strike, and a huge fire started, according to Ukrainian officials.

A senior regional emergency service official said there was probably no chance of finding any more survivors under the rubble in Vinnytsia, which had a population of about 370,000 before Russia's invasion.

The Kremlin says it is engaged in a "special military operation" to demilitarize Ukraine and root out what it regards as dangerous nationalists. Kyiv and its Western allies reject that as a false pretext for an unprovoked war of aggression.

(Reuters)

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