A missile attack by Russian war criminals on a residential sector of Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, claimed the lives of three people, another 21 residents were injured. As a result of the shelling that took place on the evening of February 1, eight apartment buildings were damaged, one of them was destroyed. Under the rubble may be another 10 people.
This was reported by the press service of the Donbass Police on Facebook, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.
Russian troops hit the housing sector in the city center with an Iskander-K missile, destroyed from the fourth to the first floors of a four-story residential building within one entrance.
The police indicated that a search and rescue operation is underway. There are 11 investigative teams, explosives experts, cynologists, paramedics, patrol policemen and other units working at the site of the missile attack, more than 100 police officers in total. Law enforcement officers are evacuating people to a local school, where a shelter point has been set up.
Subsequently, the State Emergency Service added that two people were rescued from under the rubble of the destroyed house.
According to the head of the Donetsk regional military administration, Pavel Kirilenko, as a result of the Russian air attack on Kramatorsk, two residents were killed, and a third person, who was reported as dead, was resuscitated.
Not three, but two people died in Kramatorsk. One person was resuscitated and sent for treatment to the Dnieper. The number of victims is 21 people, eight people were injured, two of them in serious condition and transported to the Dnipropetrovsk region, where they underwent stabilizing operations, Kirilenko added.
On the morning of February 2, it became known about three dead. Another 10 people may be under the rubble.
Source: Racurs
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