2023-08-08 12:48:00
Russian ‘double attack’ in Pokrovsk injures workers responding to first blast, authorities say
Two Russian Iskander missiles hit the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk within 30 to 40 minutes of each other, killing seven people, including an emergency worker responding to the first attack, the authorities said. authorities this Tuesday.
The shelling began at 7:15 p.m. local time on Monday (12:15 p.m. Eastern European time), according to a local military official, when a short-range ballistic missile hit what President Volodymyr Zelensky described as an “ordinary residential building” in the city. from the Donetsk region.
Rescuers rushed to the scene to treat the injured and pull people out of the rubble, but they themselves were attacked.
The second attack led authorities to suspend removal work for fear of another attack, despite widespread damage.
“The first missile hit at 7:15 p.m., the second at 7:52 p.m. This is a standard Russian-Fascist scenario: 30-40 minutes between missiles. When the State Emergency Service and rescue teams arrive to save the people, the second missile hits and thus increases the number of victims,” Serhii Dobriak, head of the Military Administration of the city of Pokrovsk, said on Telegram.
“The radius of the explosion was very large: the windows of many buildings were smashed, at least 2,000 windows,” he added.
Local officials said a residential building, a hotel, shops and administrative buildings were damaged. The Druzhba (Friendship) hotel and the Corleone pizzeria, both highly frequented by journalists, suffered damage in the attack, according to geolocated images of the place.
Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration, said the seven dead included five civilians, a rescuer and a military man.
He said there were 81 injured, including 39 civilians, two children, 31 policemen, seven rescuers and four soldiers.
The National Police of Ukraine said that the deputy head of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in the Donetsk region, Andrii Omelchenko, was killed, and confirmed that 31 policemen were injured.
“All of them were there when needed, trying their best to rescue people following the first entrants,” police said on Telegram. “They knew there were victims under the rubble, so they had to react, dismount, get them out and save them. And the enemy attacked once more.”
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