(Kyiv) The city of Avdiivka, near Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, was the target of a Russian attack on Monday evening, killing at least five people and injuring 19, Lyoudmila Denisova said on Tuesday. , in charge of human rights at the Ukrainian Parliament.
Posted at 8:20 a.m.
“Five civilians were killed and 19 injured,” the Ukrainian official said on her Telegram channel, indicating that Avdiivka had been “the target of artillery fire and (Russian) aerial bombardment, completely destroying the village.”
Avdiivka, which in peacetime is home to 30,000 residents, is located in the northwestern suburbs of Donetsk, an industrial center in eastern Ukraine held since 2014 by pro-Russian separatists backed by Moscow.
In Lisschansk, 150 km northeast of Donetsk, two more people were killed, three injured and eight rescued from rubble following another Russian military strike, she said.
In another message on her Telegram channel published later in the morning, Lyudmila Denisova said that a Russian tank fired in the Kharkiv region, eastern Ukraine, at a car carrying a family with two children. .
The family allegedly shouted that they were civilians and waved a white flag, to no avail, she said. The parents and their 9-year-old daughter died and a 17-year-old boy was injured, she added.