At least eleven people were killed, including five children, on Saturday during a Russian strike targeting the town of Pokrovsk and its surroundings in eastern Ukraine. “The Russians struck the region with S-300 missiles,” Vadim Filashkin, governor of the Donetsk region, said on Telegram. He released photographs showing rescuers working around debris. According to him, the strike damaged six houses in Pokrovsk and one in Rivne. According to the emergency services, six people, including two children, could be under the rubble of two affected buildings.
“The Russians simply struck ordinary residential buildings, private houses,” denounced President Volodymyr Zelensky, assuring that no Russian strike “will remain without consequences”.
The town of Pokrovsk, which had 60,000 inhabitants before the war and which is located around fifty kilometers from the front, had already been hit by a deadly bombing in August 2023, which left nine dead and 82 injured.