A Russian missile crashed into a market in a village in eastern Ukraine today, killing two women and injuring four others, including a 10-year-old girl, the district prosecutor’s office said.
Footage posted by public broadcaster Suspilne in Telegram messaging app show rescuers searching through piles of rubble, burning debris and even a large crater in Shevchenkove, about 80 km southeast of the city of Kharkiv.
A photo posted online by the office of the Ukrainian presidency shows rescuers trying to pull out a woman wearing a thick winter coat. Her head and hands are sticking out of the rubble but it is not clear if she is alive.
“The Russian military committed another terrorist act against the civilian population — one child was injured, two women were killed,” the district attorney’s office said. “‘An enemy missile hit the local market area.’
In a written statement, the prosecutor’s office said it had launched a possible war crime investigation, citing preliminary information that the attack was carried out by an S-300 anti-aircraft missile system in the Belgorod region that borders Ukraine.
Reuters is currently unable to confirm these reports. Russia, which invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, has not yet commented on the reports from Shevchenkove, which Ukraine recaptured in September after months of Russian occupation.
Blaming Russia for the attack, Andriy Yermak, head of the Ukrainian presidential administration, wrote on Telegram: “Common terrorists.”
Oleh Sinekhubov, the governor of Kharkiv region, wrote on Telegram that a 60-year-old woman was killed and that the rest of the victims are being treated in hospital.
The prosecutor’s office did not provide details on the conditions of the other victims except that they are all women, including a 10-year-old girl.
A local official told public broadcaster that at least three stalls were destroyed in the attack and a shopping center was damaged, but Monday was not a market day.
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