A Ukrainian rocket fired at a Russian-occupied city hit a bakery and killed at least 28 people, including nine women and a child, over the weekend, Moscow officials said.
Russian-backed leaders in the occupied Luhansk region claimed that Ukraine attacked the Adriatic restaurant in the city of Lysychansk on Saturday with the US-supplied projectile.
The restaurant had a bakery set up for civilians who were trapped in the explosion and buried under rubble, Moscow-appointed official Leonid Pasechnik said in a statement.
Pasechnik said 28 people were killed in the explosion and another 10 were quickly rescued from the rubble.
At least four more people were taken out on Sunday morning, and all of them were in “extremely serious condition,” according to Russia’s Emergencies Ministry.
Rescuers work to clear the rubble of a bakery in Lysychansk that Russia says was hit by a Ukrainian rocket on Saturday. AP
Moscow’s Foreign Ministry condemned Saturday’s attack and attempted to use the incident to warn the European Union about what its money would be used for after the EU agreed to allocate 50 billion euros, or more than $54 billion, to Kiev.
“EU citizens should know how their taxes are used: they are used to buy deadly weapons systems and send them to the Kiev regime, which uses them to kill civilians,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said in a statement.
Ukrainian officials have not yet commented on Saturday’s attack.
At least 28 people died in the attack, including nine women and a child. AP
The explosion in Luhansk occurred during an intense series of attacks between Moscow and kyiv over the past 24 hours, and Ukraine’s General Staff warned on Sunday that Russia has intensified its attacks along the front lines.
At least one civilian was killed and two others wounded by Russian artillery fire aimed at the border town of Toretsk, according to Donetsk regional governor Vadym Filashkin.
Kiev officials said Russia carried out 16 separate bombing raids across northern communities, while Ukraine also launched a series of counterstrikes.
About 10 more people were pulled alive from the rubble and four others were hospitalized in “extremely serious condition.” ZUMAPRESS.com
Reports emerged on Saturday that a pair of Ukrainian drones attacked a major oil refinery in southwestern Russia, causing a fire and marking the latest assault on the Kremlin’s fuel facilities.
The drone attack hit a refinery owned by Lukoil, an industry giant that has been described as “one of the leading companies in the Russian oil and gas industry.”
A Ukrainian source told Reuters: “By attacking oil refineries working for the Russian military-industrial complex, we not only cut off the logistics of fuel supply for enemy equipment but also reduce the filling of the Russian budget.”
With post cables
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