Russian bombardments claim lives in eastern Ukraine
Jun 30, 2024
Kyiv [Ukraine], June 30: Four civilians were killed and a further three were injured by Russian bombardment in the Niu-York, or New York, settlement in eastern Ukraine, prosecutors in the Donetsk region reported on Friday.
Among the weapons used was a 250-kilogram glide bomb that damaged several residential blocks.
Russian forces have recently intensified attacks along the front near the town of Toretsk, which lies some 40 kilometres north of the Russian-occupied regional capital of Donetsk. They have secured minor territorial gains.
According to the local authority, at least three people were killed and almost 20 were injured by Russian action near Toretsk and Krakhove west of Donetsk on Thursday. More than 30 residential buildings were damaged.
One killed in Dnipro attacks At least one person died and nine others were injured including a 7-month-old baby when a Russian rocket struck a high-rise building in Dnipro in eastern Ukraine, Dnipropetrovsk Governor Serhiy Lysak reported on his Telegram channel.
Two women aged 27 and 30, and a man aged 29, were in a critical condition. Two more people are believed to have been buried in the rubble.
Images revealed a severely damaged main entrance to a nine-storey building in a dense residential area. The upper four storeys have been destroyed.
The industrial city on the Dnipro River has been the target of repeated Russian attacks. In one of the worst, 45 people died and around 80 were injured when a residential block was hit at the start of 2023.
Responding to the attack, President Volodymyr Zelensky called once again for the country's air defences to be improved.
Source: Qatar Tribune
