The multiple rocket launchers that hit Sloviansk on Sunday left “six dead and fifteen injured”, announced the mayor of this city in eastern Ukraine under pressure from the Russian army.
“Provisional report of today’s shootings: six dead, 15 wounded. Among the dead, there is a child”, indicated on Facebook Vadim Liakh, confirming a report given earlier by a regional spokesperson to the Ukrainian media Suspend. He specified that several districts of this city of approximately 100,000 inhabitants before the war had been affected. “Multiple rocket launcher fire on Sloviansk, the largest in a long time. There are fifteen fires. Many dead and injured,” he said initially in a video posted on Facebook.
Tetiana Ignatchenko, a spokeswoman for the Donetsk region to which Sloviansk belongs, reiterated the authorities’ appeal to residents to leave the region, while the front line is only a few kilometers away from Sloviansk. According to Ukrainian media, one of the city’s markets was notably on fire following these strikes.
Further south, the city of Kramatorsk, the administrative center of Ukrainian-controlled Donbass, was hit for the second consecutive day by Smertch rockets, according to the city’s mayor Oleksandr Goncharenko. These strikes, which hit a residential area and an unoccupied hotel, caused no casualties, he said. Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, two cities with high symbolic value, are directly under threat from Russian forces, especially if the capture of Lyssytchansk, further north-east, claimed by Russia on Sunday, were to be confirmed by kyiv, which asserts that fighting continues there.
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The multiple rocket launchers that hit Sloviansk on Sunday left “six dead and fifteen wounded”, announced the mayor of this city in eastern Ukraine under pressure from the Russian army. “today: six dead, 15 injured. Among the dead, there is a child”, indicated on Facebook Vadim Liakh, confirming a report given earlier by a spokesperson…
