The demise toll has risen to 11 after a Russian missile struck a residential space within the japanese Ukrainian metropolis of Sloviansk.
Ukrainian media, referring to rescue providers, reported the upper casualty whole, up from 9 reported earlier on Saturday.
Sloviansk Mayor Vadym Lyakh stated that the physique of a girl had been retrieved from a high-rise constructing that was severely broken within the assault.
Residents are nonetheless lacking underneath the rubble. A two-year-old little one is alleged to be among the many fatalities.
No less than 20 individuals have been injured from the Friday afternoon assault, the mayor stated.
The spokesman for the Russian Protection Ministry, Igor Konashenkov, stated the Sloviansk constructing hit was a gas depot of the Ukrainian military.
Footage of the assault on Fb reveals a block of flats.
Preventing stays intense within the closely contested Donetsk area. Pictures of the assault shared on-line present a multi-storey constructing with a big gap within the higher flooring.
Moscow in the meantime reported a smaller navy success south-east of Sloviansk within the metropolis of Bakhmut, which has been closely contested for months.
Mercenaries of the Wagner group had captured two extra neighborhoods, Konashenkov stated. This data couldn’t be independently verified.
