At least 11 people have died and 21 have been injured this friday after a Russian shelling in the city of Sloviansk, in Donetskas reported by the spokesperson for the State Emergency Service of this region, Veronika Bajal, in her Telegram account.
“The number of victims of the bombardment of Sloviansk has increased to 11 people,” Bajal declared, updating previous estimates that included a two-year-old boy among those killed in this city, 45 kilometers from Bakhmut, one of the current epicenters of the war.
Later the authorities have confirmed that there were five missing persons whom they are looking for under the rubble. The State Emergency Service has indicated that “Under the rubble there are still five people whose identities have already been established”.
“Furthermore, we have no information about the residents of three more apartments“, has pointed out the spokesman for the State Emergency Service, Vadim Liaj, according to the UNIAN news agency.
Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky has condemned the attack. “The occupiers have brutally bombarded the city (…). The evil state has once again shown what its essence is. Kill people in broad daylight and destroy every living thing“, he has reproached.
“The evil state (Russia) has once again shown what its essence is: to kill people in broad daylight and destroy all living things”
“According to preliminary data, were used S-300 missiles. Five high-rise buildings, five private houses, a store, a business center, a recreation club and three cars have been damaged,” reported the head of the Ukrainian regional military administration, Pavlo Kirilenko, according to the UNIAN news agency.
Sloviansk suffered a series of Russian bombardments against civilian infrastructure the day before.
One of the projectiles hit the schoolyardas denounced by the regional Ukrainian authorities, has collected the news agency Ukrinform.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces reported this Saturday that in the last 24 hours they have repelled more than 50 Russian attacks, mainly in the towns of Liman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Marinka, in the Donetsk region. They have also released up to thirteen missiles contra Sloviansk y Kramatorsk.
In addition, the Ukrainian Army has denounced that the Russian military is “looting” the occupied areas in the south of the region and have bombed electrical transformers to cause blackouts in the province of Jershon.
