<div style="text-align: justify; "><b style="font-size: 1rem;">UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has condemned the Russian missile strike on an apartment building in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro, with at least 40 dead, as a possible war crime, his spokesperson said Monday.</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"A strike hit a residential building in Dnipro on Saturday evening, in one of the deadliest attacks in Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion last February," Stephanie Tremblay told reporters.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The secretary-general condemned this attack, saying that this was another example of a suspected violation of the laws of war," she added.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The UN coordinator in Ukraine, Denise Brown, "called for an effective investigation of suspected war crimes and appropriate prosecution of suspects," Tremblay said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The toll from the attack in Dnipro rose to 40 on Monday, as more bodies were pulled from the debris of the partially collapsed Soviet-style apartment building. AFP</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>