The dead from the Russian bombardment, on the night of Saturday to Sunday, in an apartment building in the village of Chasiv Yar, in eastern Ukraine, have reached 31, as announced by the Ukrainian rescue services.
“In total, 30 bodies have been recovered. Nine people have been rescued from the wreckage,” the Emergency Service said on Facebook, adding that one more dead person had been identified but had not yet been recovered.
The deputy director of the office of the Ukrainian president, Kirill Tymoshenko, reported via Telegram that rescuers of the State Emergency Service removed 65% of the rubble, 170 tons of damaged parts of the apartment building.” Searches of the wreckage continue and two ambulances are on the scene .
Chasiv Yar, a town of 12,000 people, is located in Donetsk Oblast and has been the primary target of Russian forces since the capture of neighboring Luhansk Oblast.
AFP journalists who arrived in the area on Sunday saw the building partially collapsed and rescuers, with the help of an excavator, trying to remove the debris.
Today, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov claimed that “more than 300” Ukrainian fighters were killed in shelling in Chasiv Yar, but made no mention of the apartment building. It claimed only that a “high-precision missile” destroyed a “deployment point” of the Ukrainian military.
Earlier today, six civilians were killed and 31 injured in Kharkiv, as announced by the local prosecutor’s office. Among the dead is a 17-year-old and his father, while of the 31 injured, two are minors, 4 and 16 years old.
Oleg Sinegubov, the governor of Kharkiv, clarified via social networking sites that the strikes targeted “exclusively urban zones, a shopping center and houses”.
(With information from Ukrinform)
Source: Capital
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