SLOVIANSK: THE HEIGHTENED TOLL TO SIX DEAD
A Russian strike on an apartment building left at least six people dead and 18 injured on Friday in Sloviansk, a city in eastern Ukraine, the local governor said, warning that there could be people buried under the rubble.
“As of 6 p.m. local time (4 p.m. GMT), there are five dead and 15 injured,” Donetsk region governor Pavlo Kirilenko said on Telegram. “It is possible that seven people, including a child, are under the rubble,” he added.
Shortly after, Daria Zarivna, adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky, said a two-year-old child who had been pulled out of the rubble later died in the ambulance, bringing the death toll to six.
Sloviansk is in a part of the Ukrainian-controlled Donetsk region, 45 kilometers northwest of Bakhmout, near Russian-controlled territory. President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of “brutally bombing” residential buildings and “killing people in broad daylight”.