According to official reports, at least five civilians were killed and another 17 injured today in southern and eastern Ukraine as a result of Russian bombing. According to civil defense authorities, at least three men died in the Zaporizhzhia region after several Russian missile attacks.
Two of the dead were rescue workers. They carried out cleanup work after the first impacts. 14 people were injured.
Initially, regional military governor Yuri Malaschko spoke of one dead and seven injured. According to authorities, a multi-story residential building was hit by a Russian missile in the eastern Ukrainian city of Selydove in the Donetsk region. Two people – including an 85-year-old woman – died and three others were injured.
According to police reports, a total of four S-300 rockets hit Selydove in the early hours of the morning and damaged 26 homes. Two deaths were confirmed – but rescuers assumed there were two more people buried. Rescue work continued.