President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced Russia for “brutally shelling” residential buildings and “killing folks in broad daylight”.
The dying toll from a Russian strike on a block of flats within the japanese Ukrainian metropolis of Sloviansk climbed to 11 on Saturday.
Journalists on Friday noticed rescue employees digging for survivors on the highest ground of the everyday Soviet-era housing block, and black smoke billowing from properties on fireplace throughout the road.
The road under – together with a playground – was coated in concrete mud and particles, together with torn pages from college books and youngsters’s drawings.
Toddler amongst 11 useless in Russian missile strikes
Russia shelled a block of flats within the japanese Ukrainian metropolis of Sloviansk, killing 11 folks, authorities confirmed on Saturday, together with a two-year-old boy who was rescued from the rubble however died on his option to hospital.
Friday’s strike on the quiet neighbourhood got here as Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a invoice that may make it simpler to mobilise residents into the military and block them from fleeing the nation if drafted.
Sloviansk lies in part of the Donetsk area that’s below Ukrainian management. In response to Kyiv, it was struck by seven missiles which hit 5 buildings, 5 properties, a college and an administrative constructing.
