Ukrainian shelling in Eastern occupied metropolis kills no less than eight, Russia says | EUROtoday

Issued on: 03/02/2024 – 20:00

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Lysychansk, within the Lugansk area, fell to Russian forces after a brutal battle six months into Moscow’s offensive in 2022.

Russia’s forces mentioned that Ukraine had struck a constructing housing a preferred bakery and that it believed extra victims had been buried within the rubble.

“According to current data as a result of the shelling of a bakery in Lysychansk eight people died and 10 were wounded with varying degrees of severity,” the Russian-installed well being minister of the Lugansk area, Natalia Pashchenko, mentioned on Telegram.

“Rescuers have also found, preliminarily, around 10 people under the rubble. There are dead among them, too,” she added.

The Moscow-installed governor of Lugansk, Leonid Pasechnik, mentioned Kyiv had focused a bakery that was identified to have contemporary bread on weekends.

RIA Novosti revealed a video of a closely broken constructing, with emergency employees pulling out a completely crushed automobile.

The one-storey constructing had a big signal on it that learn “Restaurant Adriatic” and appeared solely destroyed and coated in rubble.

Moscow-installed authorities mentioned one wounded man in a “serious condition” was taken to hospital within the metropolis of Lugansk, the place three different wounded individuals would even be taken.

Pasechnik mentioned native police and emergency providers had been on the scene and attempting to “rescue victims with special equipment”.

Lysychansk had a inhabitants of round 111,000 individuals earlier than Russia’s offensive.

Russia took management of it and its twin metropolis of Severodonetsk in summer season 2022 after a few of the most brutal battles of its virtually two-year offensive.

(AFP)