Two children, a brother and sister, were killed on Friday by Russian shellfire that hit the village of Druzhba (Friendship) in eastern Ukraine, regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko announced.
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“Around 3 p.m. the Russians bombarded the village with artillery. One of the shells hit the yard where the children were,” Pavlo Kyrylenko said on his Telegram account. The boy was 10 and his sister was 16, he said.
Earlier Friday, Pavlo Kyrylenko announced the death of a couple killed by Grad rocket fire in Kostiantynivka.
Finally, in northern Ukraine, the governor of the Cherniguiv region, Viatcheslav Tchaous, announced the death of an employee of a cultural center in a Russian strike. He later added that a woman’s body was also found under the rubble.