SONNA – At least eight people have been killed and 31 others wounded after two Russian missiles hit residential buildings in the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region, Ukrainian officials said.
Videos and pictures released by Ukrainian authorities on Monday showed people sorting through the rubble including at a badly damaged five-storey apartment building. An ambulance was on the scene treating the wounded.
Donetsk regional Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko reported that eight people were killed in the attacks, including five civilians, two rescue workers and one member of the military, according to the Reuters news agency.
Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said earlier that four civilians died in the first attack and an emergency official was killed during the second attack. Search-and-rescue operations were ongoing, Klymenko said.
Ten members of the Ukrainian security services were among the 31 wounded, most of whom were civilians, officials said.
The strikes damaged a hotel, residential buildings and other civilian structures, Kyrylenko said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in an online statement, accused Russia of trying to leave nothing but “broken and scorched stones” in eastern Ukraine. His remarks accompanied footage of a damaged, five-storey residential building with one floor partially destroyed.
Pokrovsk had a pre-war population of about 60,000 people.
Source: Al Jazeera
