The strike destroyed a two-story residential complex, a school and a shop, while rescue workers searched the rubble, Governor Oleh Sinekhubov and police said.
A Russian missile strike in the Ukrainian city of Chuhuiv, in northeastern Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, overnight killed three people, including a 70-year-old woman, and injured three others, it said. local governor.
The strike destroyed a two-story residential complex, a school and a shop, while rescue workers searched the rubble, Governor Oleh Sinekhubov and police said.
A regional police officer said Russia fired four missiles at the city from a point near the western Russian city of Belgorod at around 03:30 local time.
Russia, which invaded Ukraine on February 24, denies targeting civilians.
Russian attacks in Donbas are escalating
The Ukrainian General Staff announced today that Russian troops are re-escalating their attacks in the eastern part of the country, after regrouping their units.
Ukrainian officials reported repelling Russian attacks in the direction of Bakhmut and near Donetsk in the past 24 hours.
“After regrouping, the enemy resumed the attack on the Buglegirsk thermal power station and the fighting continues.”
This information is impossible to independently verify.
The US Institute for the Study of War (ISW) also estimates that Russian troops are completing their operational pause after the capture of the twin cities of Severodonetsk and Lisitsansk.
He added that for now, the hostilities are still small-scale and that “if the cease-fire is indeed over, the Russians will probably continue and expand their attacks in the next 72 hours.”
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