At least seven people have been killed in a Russian missile attack on eastern Ukraine.
Officials have said that at least seven people have been killed in a Russian missile attack on residential buildings in the eastern Ukrainian town of Pokrovsk.
Two missiles hit the town – the second as rescuers were searching for victims of the first, injuring dozens of people including police officers, rescuers and two children.
Head of the Donetsk region, Pavlo Krylenko, said the first strike killed five civilians, and that an official from the emergency services was killed in the second strike. Krylenko added that a person who works in the military also died while rescue efforts are continuing.
According to other Ukrainian officials, the second missile struck 40 minutes after the first, killing and wounding rescuers as they searched for survivors in the ruins of what President Zelensky described as an “ordinary residential building.
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