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At least 15 people have been killed and more than 30 are believed to be trapped after Russian missiles hit a five-storey apartment block in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, collapsing the building.
Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said the attack took place on Saturday evening in Chasiv Yar, a town about 20 kilometers southeast of Kramatorsk, which is expected to be a key target for Russian forces as they slowly advance west.
Donetsk region is one of two provinces along with Luhansk that make up the Donbas region, where separatist rebels have been fighting Ukrainian forces since 2014. Last week, Russia captured the city of Lysychansk, the last major stronghold of Ukrainian resistance in Luhansk .
On Saturday, Luhansk Governor Serhiy Haidai said Russian forces were “raising real hell” in Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland.
After the capture of Lysychansk, some analysts predicted that Moscow’s troops would likely take some time to rearm and regroup.
But Haidai said that so far there was “no operational pause announced by the enemy”, who “is still attacking and shelling our lands, he said, with the same intensity as before”. Ukrainian authorities said the Russian military continued to shell Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk and northeastern Kharkiv regions on Saturday.
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