At least six people were killed and five others injured on Sunday in a Russian strike on an apartment building in Chassiv Iar, in eastern Ukraine, the governor announced, adding that around 30 people were there. still under the rubble.
“The rescue operation is underway.
The rescuers were able to bring six dead and five wounded to the surface,” Pavlo Kyrylenko, governor of the Donetsk region, which the Russian army wants to conquer, said on Telegram.
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At least thirty people are under the rubble” of this four-storey building, hit by a Russian Hurricane missile, according to Mr. Kyrylenko.
AFP journalists who arrived on the spot after the strike, which took place during the night, saw the partially collapsed building, rescuers and a backhoe working to clear the area.
“What saved me was the wave of the explosion”
“I was in the bedroom, I came out and everything started shaking, falling apart.
What saved me was the wave of the explosion that propelled me into the toilet, all in blood.
I barely got out, ”testified a resident interviewed by AFP, refusing to give her name.
According to one of the people in charge of the rescue operations, Vyacheslav Boïtso, the rescuers managed to establish contact with three people who were alive under the rubble.
“There is a chance of finding them (...) They have enough air, they can breathe.
They tell us that they are waiting to be rescued,” he told AFP.
Heavy Russian artillery strikes
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In the Donbass, in the gradually conquered eastern Ukraine, "the brutal strikes of Russian artillery do not stop one day, Sloviansk, Bakhmout, Avdiivka...", condemned President Volodymyr Zelensky, in the evening , still demanding “modern and powerful” weapons to defend themselves.
"In one day, Russia struck Mykolaiv (South), Kharkiv (North-East), Kryvy Rig (hometown of Mr. Zelensky in the East, editor's note), the villages of the Zaporijjia region (East)... It hit (…) deliberately, intentionally, simple houses, civilian objects, people.
There are victims, dead, injured, ”he listed.