Multiple rocket launchers on Sloviansk on Sunday caused "
many deaths and injuries
", announced the mayor of this city in eastern Ukraine under pressure from the Russian army.
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“
Multiple rocket launcher fire on Sloviansk, the biggest in a long time.
There are fifteen fires.
Many dead and injured
,” city mayor Vadim Liakh said in a video posted on Facebook.
Tetiana Ignatchenko, a spokeswoman for the Donetsk region to which Sloviansk belongs, told Ukrainian media
Suspilne
that the strikes left "
six people dead and fifteen injured
" and reiterated the authorities' appeal to residents to leave the town. region, while the front line is now only a few kilometers from Sloviansk.
According to Ukrainian media, one of the city's markets was notably on fire following these strikes.
Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, two cities with high symbolic value
Further south, the city of Kramatorsk, the administrative center of Ukrainian-controlled Donbass, was hit for the second consecutive day by Smertch rockets, according to the city's mayor Oleksandr Goncharenko.
These strikes, which hit a residential area and an unoccupied hotel, caused no casualties, he said.
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Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, two cities with high symbolic value, are directly under threat from Russian forces, especially if the capture of Lyssytchansk in the north-east claimed by Russia on Sunday were to be confirmed by kyiv, which affirms that fighting is continuing there .
