15 killed when Russian rocket hits residential building in Donetsk
Ukraine War: Kyiv also reported clashes with Russian troops on the fronts in the east and south, while Moscow said its forces attacked U.S. troops near Kostyantinivka in the Donetsk region.
At least 15 people have been killed and more than two dozen are feared trapped after Russian Urgan rockets hit a five-story apartment block in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, local officials said on Sunday as rescue teams searched for debris. chose his way through.
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Ukraine also reported clashes with Russian troops on fronts in the east and south, while Moscow said its forces had attacked U.S. troops near Kostyantinivka in the Donetsk region.
Donetsk Governor Pavlo Kyrilenko said the strike on the apartment building took place on Saturday evening in the city of Chasev Yar. The regional emergency service put the death toll at 15 on Sunday, and said 24 more people could still be under the rubble.
“We ran into the basement, there were three hits, the first somewhere in the kitchen,” said a local resident, who named her as Lyudmila, after rescuers removed a body in a white sheet and cleared the rubble using a crane . their hands.
“Second (strike), I don’t even remember, there was lightning, we ran to the second entrance and then went straight to the basement. We sat there all night till this morning.”
President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff, Andrey Yermak, said in a Telegram post that the attack was “another terrorist attack” and that Russia should be designated as a state sponsor of terrorism as a result.
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Russia, which says it is conducting a “special military operation” to demilitarize Ukraine, denies intentionally attacking civilians.
The Luhansk and Donetsk provinces comprise the Donbass, the eastern industrial region of Ukraine that has over generations become Europe’s largest battlefield. Russia wants to gain control of the Donbass on behalf of its backing separatists.
Moscow says pulling Ukrainian forces out of the region is central to what it calls a “special military operation” to ensure its security, an offensive that has lasted more than four months and which the West calls an unprovoked war.
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15 killed when Russian rocket hits residential building in Donetsk
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