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Russian Rocket Reportedly Kills 15 In Ukrainian Housing Block
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Five victims have been brought out alive as the death toll was given by a Ukrainian emergency services official
- One side of the five-storey building was ripped apart, leaving a mountain of rubble
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EKO HOT BLOG reports that at least 15 people have been killed and about 20 more are feared buried under rubble after Russian rockets struck an apartment block in Chasiv Yar, a town in eastern Ukraine, officials say.
Five victims have been brought out alive. The death toll was given by a Ukrainian emergency services official.
One side of the five-storey building was ripped apart, leaving a mountain of rubble. Chasiv Yar is near the city of Kramatorsk, in Donetsk region.
Donetsk is the focus of a Russian push.
The region’s governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said the destruction was caused by Russian Uragan rockets.
In the south, Ukrainian forces fired missiles on Sunday at the Russian-occupied city of Kherson. Reports from both sides are contradictory: a Ukrainian official said a Russian military base was hit, while Russian reports say a hospital was damaged and a house destroyed.
Serhiy Bratchuk, a senior Ukrainian official based in Odesa, claimed the Ukrainian forces “struck the occupiers’ base in the Kherson region” and posted a photo apparently showing a big plume of smoke over Kherson.
Russia’s Tass news agency said Kherson’s air defence system fired back and four explosions were heard in the city. It said a Ukrainian missile destroyed a house, injuring two people. And a Russian news site, Khersonsky Vyestnik, said a hospital was damaged in the Ukrainian attack.
The BBC was unable to confirm the impact of the missile strike.
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