2023-08-08 03:59:58
The death toll rose to seven and wounded to 57 following Russia’s latest attack on Ukraine. (EFE/Ukrainian State Emergency Service)
The death toll (among which is a military officer) and 57 wounded by an attack carried out this Monday on the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, in the Donetsk region, which affected a residential building, according to the Government of Ukraine, which has blamed Russian forces for a two-missile bombardment.
Despite the fact that the authorities had previously reported the deaths of five civilians, the military governor of the Donetsk region, Pavlo Kyrylenko, published on his Telegram channel the deaths of two more people.
In addition, he announced that among the dead are a military officer and two workers from the Emergency Service, and that among the injured civilians there is an 11-year-old minor.
The Ministry of the Interior reported in its Telegram account that among the injured there are more than twenty police officers and emergency service workers. The NGO Doctors Without Borders (MSF), which provides support to the authorities, has assured that the second missile fell when there was already a first emergency team in the area.
The shelling hit a residential complex in the Donetsk region. (Archyde.com)
The Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelensky, was the first authority to report the attack, through a message on social networks in which he regretted that “an ordinary residential building” had been affected. In a subsequent address to the nation, he expressed his condolences for the victims and highlighted the work of the emergency services in Ukraine.
“Everyone who fights for the freedom of Ukraine saves lives. Everyone who helps Ukraine will defeat the terrorists together with us. Russia will be held accountable for what she has done in this terrible war”, Zelensky has proclaimed.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces have registered dozens of attacks on their positions on Monday, including more than thirty aerial bombardments, and has denounced the effects of this offensive on the civilian population, in a report published late in the day.
The Ukrainian security service reported on Monday the arrest of an informant accused of helping Russia to plan an attack once morest President Volodimir Zelensky during his visit to a region affected by floods.
Ukraine thwarted a plan to attack Zelensky. (EUROPE PRESS)
The SBU security service said the detained woman was gathering information to try to find out Zelensky’s itinerary ahead of his visit to the southern Mykolaiv region.
It posted a blurry image of the woman being detained by masked officers in a kitchen, as well as some phone messages and handwritten notes regarding the military activity.
Zelensky said on Telegram on Monday that the head of the SBU had updated him on the “fight once morest traitors.”
(With information from Europa Press)
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