Three people were killed and two others injured in Russian bombing raids on two villages near Lyman in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday evening, the head of the military administration of the Donetsk region, Pavlo Kyrylenko, said.
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Russian forces “tonight attack villages in Lyman Municipality: in Torske three people were killed and one injured, in Zakitne another civilian was injured,” Kyrylenko wrote on Telegram.
“According to preliminary data, the invaders attacked the villages with artillery,” the Donetsk region prosecutor’s office said on its Facebook page. The first attack took place at 18:50 (15:50 GMT) against Torske and half an hour later against the village of Zakitne.
Those killed in Torske were two women and a man, aged 63 to 88, who were sitting on a bench at the time of the attack, prosecutors added, and one person in the same village suffered injuries to his chest, shoulder and Hip.
According to the same source, a 26-year-old man in Zakitne village suffered a fractured skull and concussion.
Separately, four civilians were injured by mortar fire and a residential building was damaged by two demolition drones in Seredyno-Buda in the Sumy region of north-eastern Ukraine, the regional military administration said on Facebook.