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Rescuers looking for victims and injured people - a rocket hit a block of flats in Chasiv Yar in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk on Saturday evening.
Under the rubble and rubble, the salvage teams suspect a number of other victims.
The time to find any survivors under the rubble is running out.
(Man being pulled out of rubble.)
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine
“All day today I received reports from the city of Chasiv Yar in the Donetsk region. A rescue operation is underway there after a Russian attack on residential buildings. Two multi-story apartment buildings were destroyed. Dozens of people lie under the rubble. Six were rescued. There are 15 names on the list of dead, and unfortunately this is not the final number.”
The attack showed once again that Russia's troops also deliberately killed in residential areas, Zelenskyy said.
Russia has repeatedly claimed that it does not shell civilian objects, but on Saturday the Russian Defense Ministry itself reported the shelling of the block of flats.
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After the first hit we ran into the corridor, after the second hit we ran towards the door, we ran over broken glass.
Then we ran down to the basement when the third explosion happened."
Meanwhile, Ukraine is apparently planning a large-scale counterattack - not in the east, but in the south of the country.
Zelenskyi ordered the army to recapture occupied areas in the provinces of Cherson and Zaporizhia, Defense Minister Reznikov told the British Sunday Times.
The Ukrainian leadership has called on civilians in the occupied south of the country to flee because of a planned army offensive - if necessary also in the direction of the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which has been annexed by Russia since 2014.