Russian rockets kill 15 in Chasiv Yar housing block, Ukraine says

Officials report that after Russian rockets attacked an apartment building in the eastern Ukrainian town of Chasiv Yar, at least 15 people have died and it is believed that another 20 are buried under the debris. Five people were recovered alive. A representative of the Ukrainian emergency services provided the dead toll.

The five-story building’s one side was torn off, creating a pile of debris. In the Donetsk region, Chasiv Yar is close to the city of Kramatorsk. The centre of a Russian push is Donetsk. Russian Uragan rockets, according to the region’s governor Pavlo Kyrylenko, were to blame for the destruction.

Reuters reported that a survivor by the name of Lyudmila said, “We hurried to the basement, there were three impacts, the first someplace in the kitchen.

“The second, I don’t even remember, there was a flash, and we immediately ran down the basement through the second entrance. From last night till this morning, we sat there.

The US M777 howitzer hangar at Chasiv Yar was destroyed by Russian forces, according to a report from the Russian defence ministry on Saturday.

Two Donetsk cities in the line of the Russian offensive, Kramatorsk and Slovyansk, have seen their defences reinforced by Ukrainian forces.

The Russians want to grab the remainder of Donetsk after taking the Luhansk region. The industrial Donbas, which is made up of both regions, is claimed by President Vladimir Putin to be a part of Russia.

Despite Russian shelling of Mariupol causing greater devastation and casualties, Ms. Bakhal claimed that the Chasiv Yar civilian death toll was one of the highest in Donetsk thus far.

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