Russian Airstrike On Ukrainian Pokrovsk Residential Building Results In 7 Deaths
According to Pavlo Kyrylenko, the commander of the military administration for the Donetsk area, two missiles that were fired 40 minutes apart on Monday destroyed homes, a hotel, cafés, businesses, and administrative buildings.
Rescuers searched through the debris of destroyed apartments in the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk on Tuesday, a day after at least seven people were killed by Russian airstrikes.
The Russian defence ministry stated in a daily briefing that the missile attack's target was a command post of the Ukrainian armed forces.
Pokrovsk, which had a pre-war population of around 60,000, is only 40 kilometres (25 miles) from the eastern front line, where Moscow claims it is making progress and fending off Ukrainian advances.
According to Pavlo Kyrylenko, the commander of the military administration for the Donetsk area, two missiles that were fired 40 minutes apart on Monday destroyed homes, a hotel, cafés, businesses, and administrative buildings.
According to Kyrylenko, the attack on Monday night resulted in seven fatalities and 81 injuries, including two children.
According to Igor Klymenko, Ukraine's minister of internal affairs, those slain included a senior emergency officer from the Donetsk area.
Following the rescuers' "forced suspension of work for the night due to the high threat of repeated shelling," Klymenko announced early on Tuesday that "we are resuming the demolition of rubble."
When the Ukrainian military attacked Pokrovsk, a facility utilised by them was hit, according to the Russian defence ministry.
Russia's defence ministry, using the Russian name for Pokrovsk, said that an advanced command post of the Khortytsya joint group of Ukrainian forces had been struck close to the village of Krasnoarmeysk in the Donetsk People's Republic.
According to an AFP photographer, the hit caused damage to the upper floors of a structure that at street level contained a pizza that was well-liked by volunteers, the military and journalists.
Late in June, Russia attacked the Kramatorsk Ria Pizza restaurant, resulting in 13 fatalities and several injuries.
On Monday, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that a residential block had been attacked by Moscow.
On social media, he posted a video showing bystanders tending to the injured and rescue workers removing debris from a structure that had lost its top level.
Additionally on Monday, Russia said that it has lately moved three miles towards Kupiansk in northeastern Ukraine, which is around 150 kilometres northeast of Pokrovsk and a few dozen metres from the Russian border.
In the Kharkiv region, Kupiansk and its environs were retaken by Ukrainian forces late September, but Moscow has redoubled its attack there.
According to Moscow's defence ministry, Russian soldiers have advanced 11 kilometres along the front and more than three kilometres inside the enemy's defence during the last three days.
It claimed to have "improved" its position along the front line and had been successfully fending off Ukrainian counterattacks.
As the Russian army began an operation in the Kupiansk region in the middle of July, Ukraine declared itself to be in a "defensive position" there.
In June, Ukraine launched its own long-awaited counteroffensive on the eastern along with southern fronts, but has achieved only modest strides against fierce Russian resistance.
Saudi negotiations
Ukraine declared on Monday that it was "satisfied" with the outcome of a peace meeting conducted in Saudi Arabia but to which Moscow was not invited.
The weekend meeting in Jeddah drew participants from over 40 nations, including China, India, the United States, and Ukraine.
On Tuesday, Moscow scornfully rejected the idea. Anatoly Antonov, the Russian representative to Washington, wrote on social media that there had been no diplomatic progress in Jeddah.
Without Russia's participation, the ambassador claimed, it was futile to debate the Ukrainian situation.
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