Rescuers were in contact with three people alive under the rubble, the emergency service added in a statement on Facebook.
The building in Chasiv Yar, a town of 12,000 people, was partially destroyed, and rescuers were working with an excavator to clear the area, the AFP news agency reported.
Donetsk Governor Pavlo Kirilenko said on Telegram that the four-story building had been hit by a Russian Hurricane missile, which is fired from truck-borne systems.
So far 591 civilians have been killed and 1,548 injured in the Donetsk region since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24, Kirilenko said.
The Russian Defense Ministry did not comment on the attack during the press conference offered this morning.
Chasiv Yar is about 20 kilometers southeast of Kramatorsk, a town that is expected to be a major target for Russian forces as they push west.
Donetsk province in the predominantly Russian-speaking Donbass region has been Moscow’s main target in Ukraine since it conquered neighboring Luhansk province a week ago.
Russian forces are raising “real hell” in the Donbass, despite assessments that they were taking an operational pause, Luhansk Governor Sergii Gaidai said yesterday.
After the seizure of Lisichansk, the last town in Luhansk held by the Ukrainian troops, some analysts predicted that the Russian Army would probably take some time to rearm and regroup.
But “so far there has been no operational pause announced by the enemy. He is still attacking and bombing our lands with the same intensity as before,” Gaidai assured.
The attack on the building in Chasiv Yar is the latest in a recent wave of shelling of civilian structures.
At least 19 people were killed when a Russian missile hit a shopping mall in the city of Kremenchuk in Poltava province in late June, and 21 people were killed when a building and recreation area were attacked in the southern Odessa region east month.
Ukraine’s Defense Minister Alexei Reznikov, meanwhile, said that Ukrainian troops suffered multiple losses.
“We have to supply our platoons, and change them, and also make replacements because we have a lot of casualties,” he said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.
According to Reznikov, Ukraine needs more weapons, in particular drones, and stressed that those sent by the United States do not have software to prevent “interference”, the Russian agency Sputnik quoted.
The minister noted that the NLAW and Javelin anti-tank systems remain necessary, but are “no longer a priority” due to changes in the nature of combat operations.
He also stressed that the Ukrainian Army needs MLRS multiple rocket launchers with a range of 150 kilometers.
In addition, the Ukrainian General Staff reported Russian shelling in the east and in Kharkov (northeast), but the only ground offensive was in Dolomitne, near Bakhmut.
Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky yesterday accused Moscow of deliberately and intentionally attacking civilian targets, houses, people.
In addition, local Ukrainian authorities accused the Russian army of burning farmland to destroy crops.
kyiv claimed to have attacked two “command points” and Russian warehouses in the Ukrainian region of Chornobaivka (south), the AFP news agency reported.
In Kharkov, the country’s second most populous city, Governor Oleg Sinegubov announced on Telegram that missile attacks on an “educational center” and a house left one injured.
The representative in Moscow of the separatist republic of Lugansk, Rodio Mirochnik, declared on Sunday in Telegram that an offensive had begun on the border between Donetsk and Lugansk, advancing “against Siversk from the north” and that “after fighting”, the town of Grigorivka was “captured”.
In addition, he added that his “troops are carrying out operations to liberate Serebrianka”, a municipality in the area.
In another order, the head of the United States diplomacy, Antony Blinken, said today that the blockade of grain exports from Ukraine imposed by Russia could have contributed to the unrest in Sri Lanka and expressed his fear that this could generate other crisis.
“We are seeing the impact of this Russian aggression everywhere. It may have contributed to the situation in Sri Lanka, we are worried about the implications around the world,” Blinken told reporters.
The US official reiterated his call for Russia to release the 20 million tons of grain from Ukraine, which Moscow invaded in February.
“We see growing food insecurity around the world that has been significantly exacerbated by Russia’s aggression against Ukraine,” he said.
Source: Ambito
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