“The Russians struck the region with S-300 missiles, killing eleven people and injuring eight others,” Vadim Filashkin, head of the Donetsk region, wrote on Telegram.
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At least eleven people were killed, including five children, on Saturday January 6 during a Russian strike which notably targeted the city of Pokrovsk, in eastern Ukraine, announced the regional governor. At least eight people were also injured.
“The Russians struck the region with S-300 missiles, killing eleven people and injuring eight others”, wrote on Telegram Vadim Filachkine, head of the Donetsk region, in the east of the country at war for almost two years with Russia. Vadim Filachkine also released photographs showing rescuers around debris. According to him, the strike damaged six houses.
Zelensky promises that no Russian strike “will remain without consequences”
The city of Pokrovsk, which had 60,000 inhabitants before the war, had already been hit by a particularly deadly bombing in August 2023. It left nine dead and 82 injured. The city is located about fifty kilometers from the front.
“The Russians simply hit ordinary residential buildings, private houses”denounced President Volodymyr Zelensky, assuring that no Russian strike “will not stay[it] without consequences.
