Russian strikes on Sloviansk killed an 11 year old girl and her mother, wounding 16 others including a 7 year old child, as Moscow’s forces near the Donetsk city.
Russian strikes on Ukraine’s eastern city of Sloviansk killed an 11-year-old girl and her mother in attacks that left 16 others wounded, authorities in the embattled Dontesk region said Tuesday.
Moscow’s troops have been edging towards Sloviansk, a city in the Donetsk region that briefly fell to separatist forces in 2014 and had a population of around 100,000 before Moscow invaded in 2022.
“The dead are an 11-year-old girl and her mother. Among the wounded is a 7-year-old girl,” regional official Vadym Filashkin wrote on social media.
Separately, on the Russian-occupied side of the southern Zaporizhzhia region, Moscow-installed authorities said a Ukrainian attack on a village funeral procession had killed one person and wounded six others.
Russian state media TASS, citing church authorities, said the victim was a priest.
Russian-installed official Yevgeny Balitsky said the procession was taking place in the village of Skelky on the Dnipro river.
And the governor of Russia’s border Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said a Ukrainian attack killed a man driving a truck in a border village.
Donetsk prosecutors later said the number of wounded civilians in Sloviansk had “increased to 16”, publishing images of badly destroyed houses.
Sloviansk Mayor Vadym Lyakh said Russia struck the city with glide bombs around 10:00 am local time (0800 GMT) and that one of the wounded was a seven-year-old child.
“One of the strikes hit a private house,” Lyakh said.
Ukraine’s national police published a video of a completely crushed house covered in rubble.
The wider Donetsk region, where Sloviansk is located, is one of five regions the Kremlin claims is part of Russia.
Moscow’s forces are around 15 kilometres (nine miles) from the city.
There has been no diplomatic breakthrough, despite a US push, to resolve the war.
Later this month marks four years since Russia launched its invasion, which has turned into Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War II.
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