Six people were killed in a Russian attack on the town of Kostyantynivka in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, and a sixth died in another attack in the south of the country, authorities said on Friday.
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“Three women and two men died” in Kostyantynivka, about twenty kilometers west of Bakhmout, the epicenter of the fighting with the Russian army, the State Emergency Situations Service said in a telegram.
The strike, which lasted overnight from Thursday to Friday, hit a building housing a humanitarian reception center in that city, aid workers said.
The three women, whose bodies were taken out of the rubble, had previously been evacuated from the villages of Bakhmout, Chassiv Iar and Opytné, which were badly affected by the fighting, the prosecutor told Telegram.
A projectile from a Russian S-300 anti-aircraft battery hit the reception center building, and another fell next to it, the Prosecutor General’s Office said.
Artillery shells killed a woman and injured four other civilians in the village of Bilotserka in the Kherson region (south) on Friday morning, prosecutors added.
Homes, power lines and gas pipelines were damaged by the bombardment, he said.