Eleven people, including a child, died on Friday in a russian bombing against an apartment building in the city of Slovianskin it eastern Ukraine, according to a new balance of the authorities published this Saturday. “The number of victims of the bombing has risen to 11,” he declared on television veronika bajalspokesperson for Ukrainian emergency service of the Eastern Donetsk region. The previous balance was nine dead and 21 wounded.
The bombardment, notes the AFP news agency, occurred on the same day that the russian president, Vladimir Putin, had signed a bill that will facilitate the mobilization of young people in the army. According to Ukraine, the city was attacked by seven missiles that damaged five buildings, five houses, a school and an administrative building. Among the dead was a two-year-old boy who was pulled alive from the rubble but died shortly after in the ambulance, the police said. adviser to President Volodimir Zelensky, Daria Zarivna.
Given this scenario, the Donetsk prosecutor’s office will initiate an investigation as part of the criminal proceedings for violation of the laws and customs of war that began more than thirteen months ago, with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “According to preliminary information, the occupants [rusos] used an S-300 anti-aircraft missile system against the civil population“, he claimed.
Russian advance
Sloviansk is a city located in the part of the Oblast region Donetsk which is under the control of Ukrainian forces, but separated by just 45 km from bakhmut, municipality near the zone occupied by Russia. In fact, the attack occurred just when Russia He claims to have advanced a little further on the northern and southern outskirts of this city, the epicenter of the longest battle since the start of the Russian invasion.
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“The Wagner assault units have successfully advanced, capturing two blocks on the north and south outskirts of the city,” the officer had said shortly before. Russian Ministry of Defense in Telegram. According to this body, Ukrainian troops are “deliberately retreating and destroying the city’s infrastructure and residential buildings to stop the advance” of Russian forces.
In parallel, Ukraine has promised to continue defending Bakhmut. However, on the ground, Ukrainian sources near the town admitted to AFP that the forces of kyiv they were in a “difficult” position to do so.