Dnipro mourns dozens of victims of tower block missile strike

DNIPRO: Maria Sherbak gently placed two roses on a growing mound of blooms and toys across the street from a building now synonymous with one of the most deadly single attacks in Ukraine since Russia invaded nearly a year ago.A resident of the apartment complex who escaped unhurt, she joined the hundreds of people who on Sunday filed into the street to pay tribute to the at least 46 people who were killed.They gathered as Orthodox priests led a memorial service and residents came to grips with the shattered sense of normalcy the city had settled into amid the war.“Other parts of the city have been hit, which scared me, but I couldn’t imagine that it would happen to my own home,“ Sherbak, 23, told AFP.Men, women and children clutched flowers in bunches of even numbers, as is traditional at funerals in Ukraine, as they looked up at the gaping space left by a Russian missile, some crossing themselves or quietly crying.Firemen, members of the teams first on the scene, stood vigil in a line