This Saturday followingnoon, two civilians were killed and ten others were injured by Russian strikes with “cluster munitions” in Kramatorsk, in eastern Ukraine, announced Pavlo Kyrylenko, the governor of the Donetsk region.
The strikes hit a park, a funeral goods store as well as a dozen residential buildings and two cars, he said on Telegram.
A city of regarding 150,000 people before the Russian invasion launched more than a year ago, Kramatorsk is near Bakhmout, the epicenter of fighting for months.
Regularly bombarded by the Russian army, Kramatorsk has played the role of a regional center since the occupation of the city of Donetsk in 2014 by Russian and pro-Russian forces.